Intel Inboard 386 - Disadvanages

Disadvanages

Some of the disadvantages of the product were:

1. Though the 80386 supported a 16 bit ISA bus, if the Inboard were plugged into an XT, it was limited to 8 bit ISA expansion cards.
2. If the BIOS did a slow POST, there would be a painfully long length of time before the RAM checked out ok and you could begin to use the 80386 features. The Inboard did not "override" the on-board motherboard BIOS/firmware.