AMI 386-XT Series 17 Motherboard What is it?

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 19, 2016 3:06 am    Post subject: AMI 386-XT Series 17 Motherboard What is it? Reply with quote

This is a strange one
AMI 386-XT Series 17

It has BOTH a 386 and a 286 on it. with chipsets for both

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 19, 2016 3:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

AMI 386 MK III
Motherboard American Megatrends Series-17 for PC XT with Intel 80386DX-25 and 64 KB of cache (1990). Here it is used the very common chipset Chips & Technologies 82C20x for 286/386 together with two ASICs for cache control. Under the CPU you notice the brown connector for upgrading the processor with a board (daughterboard) i486. Despite the presence of the hooves on the SIMM 30-pin, it is still available, according to the custom of the time, the special connector for expansion cards of RAM.

Difference is, your's is using VLSI instead of Megatrends for cache control.

http://ummr.altervista.org/386MB2.jpg
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 19, 2016 4:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yah VLSI probably made them for AMI

Why the 286? or did someone stick a 286 in a 387 socket? (came outta a system though LOL)

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 19, 2016 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

CPUShack wrote:
or did someone stick a 286 in a 387 socket?

Exactly!
It's 387 socket:
https://th99.bl4ckb0x.de/m/A-B/30905.htm
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 19, 2016 5:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool!
well board is for sale if someone wants it, I removed the 286 LOL

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