[rescue] Compaq Proliant 8000

[Joshua Boyd]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 02:48:19PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Apr 29, 2004, at 2:23 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> >>>>Why didn't that ever take off?
> >>>
> >>>   It did.  It's tremendously popular on modern systems.  PCs, 
> >>>however,
> >>>are not modern systems.
> >>
> >>Early '80s designs aren't modern?  :-)
> >
> >Don't you mean late 70s?
> 
>   Nitpick.
> 
>   The PC design was started in the late 70s but it shipped in 1981.

I thought the 8086s were shipping in the late 70s (like 78 or 79),
before the PC was released using the 8088.