30 Aug
2006
30 Aug
'06
4:36 p.m.
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
On Tuesday 29 August 2006 08:42 pm, Tony Duell wrote:
And I once found an Intergraph system at University of Texas' surplus
barn that had 3 486DX chips on the graphics board. The property sticker
was from Architectural Engineering, so I'd guess it was a CAD system.
Sadly, that's all I know about it. UT wasn't selling any of their
surplus computing gear at the time, and they frowned on my tendency to
disassemble interesting stuff.
Doc
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...