[rescue] Compaq Proliant 8000

[Nick]

Question for you, does AMD Opteron count as "x86"?
	Nick
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 09:36:28PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Apr 28, 2004, at 9:20 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> >>>Well, it does have a 386.  And I bet they use it's MMU rather than
> >>>supply their own, don't they?
> >>
> >>They did use the 386 MMU.  But, it's not an "x86" box per se - that 
> >>term
> >>is reserved (at least in my teeny little cranium) for PeeCees 
> >>designed to
> >>use DOS and/or Winblows.  FOr example, the Zenith Z-100 is *not* an 
> >>x86
> >>box, but the Z-248 is.
> >
> >I designed the AMD box sitting next to me specifically to run Linux, 
> >not
> >DOS or Windows ....   ;)
> >
> ></devil's-advocate>
> 
>   The idea is being compatible with the broken and almost completely 
> non-scalable PC architecture.  The x86 processor architecture is bad 
> enough...but the situation is made even worse by the need for backward 
> compatibility with a design that was 1) not very good to begin with, 
> and 2) never designed to be scaled up at all.
> 
>   Of course, we...oh, DON'T HAVE TO USE PCs, but solving that stupidity 
> is a different problem altogether.
> 
>          -Dave
> 
> -- 
> Dave McGuire          "PC users only know two 'solutions'...
> Cape Coral, FL          reboot and upgrade."    -Jonathan Patschke
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