x86 junk, AT/370 boards, etc. (was Re: printer socket (Off topic))

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Mon Sep 21 20:25:56 1998

<The AS/400 for example, is a non-micro. The problem, I guess, is that
< when the computer market got a life of its own and was no longer
< paid for by the government, PHBs didn't see the beauty of an 8-opcode

????? the government did make a few interesting machines but the bulk
of them from Univac on were the result of private industry trying to make
the better mouse trap.

having played with a minuteman missle computer (you could get them surplus
in the early '70s). I can say they are interesting for their day and hard
as hell to program usefully as they were not innovative.

< machine that had been developed for 10 years. And as long as computers
< are commercial, we'll see much less of this 'interesting' stuff.
< Maybe if Transmeta comes out with something, it will be interesting

There are a lot of intresting machine of very current design that while
not part of the converstation here as classics the cpus are none the less
interesting even though they are neither PC or pc.

Allison
Received on Mon Sep 21 1998 - 20:25:56 BST