x86, x86 everywhere, but... (was OT: Re: Time to declare State - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Apr 1999

--- Tony Duell &lt;ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk&gt; wrote:
...
   What?
Valueless? Not at all. Get an XT or an 286, give it a 10 or 20 meg
 HD, throw a 10BaseT network card in it (I have those coming out of my
 ears, thanks to all my friends!), install Minix on it, and make it a node
 on your friendly house-hold network. Or forget the network card and use a  
 Oh, sure. _I_ don't think they're valueless either. On the desk in front 
 of me is an XT (original IBM5160). It runs my EPROM programmer, my GAL 
 programmer, my cable tester, etc. It reads PERQ disks. It is certainly 
 useful to me. 
I use a Commodore Colt for the same thing - 8088, soft turbo mode, 3 8-bit
slots, supports 3.5" 720K floppies, built-in XT-IDE (I've got a WD93028X 
on it).  I have my ROM programmer on it, an 8003 Ethernet card and I move
files to and from it with Kermit over TCP/IP.

This does not mean that it's all I would ever want... I enjoy the web, and
it's not suitable for more than Lynx, but I do use it and I wouldn't retire
it easily.

-ethan

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