3 Nov
2011
3 Nov
'11
9:41 p.m.
On Nov 3, 2011, at 11:38 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
I agree 100%! The 386i was a weird machine, but I
miss mine. Fun stuff. I liked the idea of an 80386-based system that didn't even try
to be "PC compatible" because that wasn't what they were looking to create.
Agreed; more of the same might put me off my general distaste for the 8086 architecture. I
have a hard time getting behind a platform that still has such an awful hack as the A20
gate built into it. I found out what that BIOS setting meant (and the history behind it)
when I was trying to boot OpenBSD on a machine with a wonky A20 implementation emulation,
and I was actually enraged (still am, to an extent).
- Dave