24 Jul
2011
24 Jul
'11
9:58 a.m.
On Jul 22, 2011, at 9:36 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 22 Jul 2011 at 16:45, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Having been at IBM and working on the PS/2 series of systems, I can tell you that the PS/2
systems were first with the Pentiums from IBM. In particular the PS/2 Model 95 was the
first. It was also the first PS/2 to support > 16MB of RAM (I know 'cause I did
the support in AIX PS/2 for it...was fun having a 64MB system at the time...8 8MB DIMMs).
It was *well* before 1995 (as I moved to Austin in 1995 and hadn't been working on
PS/2 stuff for at least 2-3 years before that). The ISA based machines (of which the
PC330 was) came later.
TTFN - Guy
There were 60, 66 and 90MHz versions of the PS/2
Model 95. They might
be older. PC 330 was a low-end machine. PS/2 95 was a top of the
line machine.
AFAIK, the PS/2 systems using the (alternate) Pentium CPU used the
P24T "overdrive" which was introduced in 1995. So the 300-series
with the P60 CPU in 1994 is earlier.