NonPC x86s (was: Statement & apology

Rumor has it that Allison may have mentioned these words: Maybe pentium for "non-PC" - I once had a DEC server which had 3 486DX2/66 CPUs and I think it was sufficiently non-compatible enough that it couldn't run Windows (but there might've been a special MSDOS for it, tho, I'm not sure) -- and I *think* they'd made some CPU cards that could take a Pentium, but this might just conjecture & bitrot playing tricks on me... ;-) [[[ Googling ]]] Hrm, not much so far, but I did stumble across a reference to a multiprocessor 486 called a "LSX5030" which ran (ick) SCO... =-=-= AST made an SMP 486/50 box... =-=-= Ah well, I can't seem to find any references to it right now... Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers _??_ zmerch at 30below.com (?||?) If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead _)(_ disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.