Return To Castle Intel: 16 Years Of Motherboard History

Return To Castle Intel: 16 Years Of Motherboard History

In 1993, Bill Clinton became President, CERN unleashed the World Wide Web, and motherboards integrated practically nothing. That’s right—the only I/O integrated on Batman is a couple of PS/2 ports. If you wanted to add audio, you could use one of those ISA buses for something like a Sound Blaster Pro. That monster-sized Dallas DS1887 real-time clock could select between Motorola and Intel bus timing. (Motorola timing? Chalk that one up to the round file of history.)