[rescue] Fry's

Kenneth Dunn luser at xtra.co.nz
Mon Feb 25 03:38:53 CST 2002


On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

>   Well, don't half the PeeCees floating around say "designed for
> microsoft windows" on the front? ;)

That is only 1/2 of them :-)
 
> > That said the original i386 CPU was intended for Unix like 
> > operating systems - was it not ?
> 
>   Do you have some references to back this up?  I remember when the
> 80386 was announced, and I don't recall any mention of anything of the
> sort.

I recall reading an old Intel propanda sheet stating it was designed
specifically for Unix. It may have been some other i80x86, but I'm
pretty sure it was the i386DX.



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