[rescue] quad 486

[Dave McGuire]

On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 05:00 PM, Michael Schiller wrote:
>> These, btw, would be the only x86 machines I'd be interested in 
>> owning and
>> running.(the only ones that have an odd coolness factor... well other 
>> than
>> the Altos machines with Xenix which have a cool nostalgia factor - 
>> Xenix
>> being the only MS produced product I slightly like....slightly...).. 
>> other
>> than my current Dual Pro system.
>
> Did Altos make machines with x86 cpus? I thought most of their 
> machines were 68000 based?

   Many of Altos' machines were based on Z80 and 80386 processors.  I 
think there were a few 8086-based ones as well but that part of my 
memory is fading.

       -Dave

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