[geeks] The best things in the world

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:31:18AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:


>The 386 would have made no bigger difference than the 68020 did without
>the peecee clone industry building it into cheap mass-market machines.
>(And the 68020 actually did make a difference; a number of early Unices
>were for '020-based machines.  There were even a few for pre-'020 68k
>machines, despite their having hardware problems that made that tough.)

That's it right there. There were lots of PC's around, you could get
a decent 80386sx system in 1990 for around $1500, a lot less than what
you could get a 68020 or 68030 system for.

When the 80486 came around there were lots of 80386 computers sitting
around looking for things to do. 

Geoff.


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