19 Oct
1998
19 Oct
'98
10:42 a.m.
What I meant was, if discrete transistors could be used, a small cube
of which would equal a Pentium II in transistor number, it would be
possible to make a Pentium II box to plug into an XT in 1982. Of
course, I hadn't considered at the time I said it that it would be
very slow, and speed is the main difference between an earlier
machine and a Pentium.
There were boards to put 386s in XT machines. I have
one, an Intel
inboard386pc. It replaces the 8088 (the 8088 has to be removed). There
were others made.
Allison
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