10 May
2005
10 May
'05
10:10 a.m.
der Mouse wrote:
Hm, that might be an interesting question. What
machines are there
built around x86 CPUs but which are definitely not peecees?
Depending on how generous or tight ones defintion of 'peecee' is,
perhaps the NCR 34xx line... ISTR we had quad P90s with 4? 8?
Microchannels and wads of SCSI cards and local disks when I was at
Lucent c. 1996. From one standpoint, a box the size of a small fridge
is not a peecee, from the other, I was told that one could plug a VGA
monitor in, boot from a DOS floppy and play Doom... I think these
uber-peecees were around $100K. They were certainly tens of thousands
of dollars base, plus disk.
These ran UNIX, for the record, but if one ignored the multiprocessor
aspect of them, they'd run Windows fine, too.
-ethan