Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bbncc5.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!bbncc5!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: IBMPC Jr. Help Needed Message-ID: <454@bbncc5.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 13:01:53 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncc5.454 Posted: Tue Aug 20 13:01:53 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Aug-85 23:14:29 EDT References: <666@gitpyr.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA Lines: 15 The good news is that the PCJr, with enough add-on memory, is sufficiently compatible with the PC family to run a wide variety of programs. Problems occasionally arise with some (only some) copy-protection schemes which assume the the drive controller has DMA. Thus, if you're looking for an inexpensive PC clone, the PCJr, sufficiently discounted (like < $600), is a very good deal. The bad news is that makers of add-on boards are quite justifiably dropping the Jr from their plans. If you're looking to expand the Jr, do it now. Also, the lack of DMA can be a pain: keyboard accesses are disallowed during disk accesses. -- /Steve Dyer {harvard,seismo}!bbnccv!bbncc5!sdyer sdyer@bbncc5.ARPA