26 Jun
1998
26 Jun
'98
11:26 a.m.
William Donzelli <william(a)ans.net> wrote:
I read the 386i as the Unix machine which had some dos compatibility
possibilites.
Until the SunPC software SunPC card for the Sparc there was no way the
Word/Excel business types could use both Sun and Win easily.
I think they would've had a better shot with a better Intel Processor.
The 386i was the best they had at that time. The 486i would've been
much better for them -- but was dead before final introduction.
Bill
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Actually, the 88000 was killed off because Sun
went with the SPARCs for
their next generation of machines, the Sun-4 series.
So...how did/do you read the 386i? Back then, I read it as Sun
hedging its bets against a total victory by Intel in the CPU Wars of
the late 1980s: they could sell Motorola, Intel, and SPARC today
(today being then, not now) and promise to be around tomorrow no
matter what the CPU of tomorrow looked like.
-Frank McConnell