10 May
2005
10 May
'05
10:45 a.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
Depending on how generous or tight ones defintion of
'peecee' is,
perhaps the NCR 34xx line... ISTR we had quad P90s with 4? 8?
Microchannels and wads of SCSI cards and local disks when I was at
Lucent c. 1996. From one standpoint, a box the size of a small fridge
is not a peecee, from the other, I was told that one could plug a VGA
monitor in, boot from a DOS floppy and play Doom... I think these
uber-peecees were around $100K. They were certainly tens of thousands
of dollars base, plus disk.
I work at Lucent, and I support these things (which I hate, btw -- I'd rather
admin a clone PC running ANYTHING (BSD, Linux, whatever) than the NCR boxen I
have assigned to me :-) They are more Unix-ish than a regular winbox --
multiple CPUs, Microchannel -- but they are, technically, x86 PCs.
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