10 May
2005
10 May
'05
10:46 a.m.
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 11:41, der Mouse wrote:
There's a few that I can think of off the top of my head.
DEC Rainbow. (got one at home) 8088(?) and Z80. It ran a somewhat
modified version of DOS IIRC, but isn't really what I'd call a PC.
NCR WorldMark 5100 - up to 32-way Pentium Pro machine, dual microchannel
busses, ran NCR Unix or potentially a somewhat modified Redhat. These
are in the same class as what Ethan talks about in a message, except I
don't think that these are capable of running Windows.
They're not classic, but Cray's (use to be OctigaBay) XD1 and their XT3
(aka Sandia's Redstorm) use AMD Opterons in a very non-PC-like
configuration.
Those are the examples I could think of off the top of my head.
Pat
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I have an
Altos 586, an 8086 machine that is completely NOT a
pee-cee.
Hm, that might be an interesting question. What machines are there
built around x86 CPUs but which are definitely not peecees?
I suspect there are more of them with the earlier CPUs (8086) than
with the later ('386, '486, Pentium, etc). The latest one that comes
to my mind immediately is Sun's 386i (the "Road Runner").