[rescue] Compaq Proliant 8000

[Dave McGuire]

On Apr 29, 2004, at 2:43 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.

   ???  What does the 8086 have to do with this?

        -Dave

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