30 Aug
2006
30 Aug
'06
10:41 a.m.
On Tuesday 29 August 2006 08:42 pm, Tony Duell wrote:
A serious question : Was the Pentium ever used in a
non-PC compatible? I
know the 386 was -- there was a least one Sun that used it, and those
interesting Sequent multi-processor 386 machines. Anything similar with
the Pentium? If so, (and if they're more than 10 years old or whatever),
I think I could easily consider those to be classic computers.
Interesting question. I know that the last time I was paying attention to
that area, embedded systems were starting to use 386 chips. And my Tek
scope has an 8088 in it...
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