18 May
2005
18 May
'05
8:41 p.m.
On Tue, 17 May 2005 14:28:37 -0700 (PDT)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
On Tue, 17 May 2005, chris wrote:
Will they still be intended for use by one person? I don't know why
we didn't think of it before, but instead of "Microcomputer" it should
perhaps be "Personal Computer".
I have an IBM PC Server 704. It's big (size of an oversize 'fireproof'
commercial two-drawer file cabinet) and sports four Pentium Pro
processors. It's a pee-cee, though, and if I wanted, Processor 1 would
be happy running MS-DOS. Then I could use WordStar 3.3 on it and it'd
be a dandy 'peronal word processor,' sort of.
Hell, I could install Darwin on it and pretend it's one of Apple's 4
processor G5 towers (the 32 bit version in the 'ugly case').
1.
Microcomputer
A "microcomputer" is defined as a computer having no more than two
microprocessors used for general purpose processing within the
computer. For the purposes of this class, a "microprocessor" is
defined as a central processing unit comprised of not more than 4
individual LSI intgerated circuit on a single board, with the
entire ALU being contained within a single integrated circuit.
Will this definition change when Apple starts selling 4 processor G5
towers? Or will those (and 4 processor Pentium workstations), not
apply because they are far too new?