On Sunday 28 April 2002 09:13, you wrote:
> Raymond Moyers wrote:
> > http://www.nop.org/misc/pics/ibmpc
> Why? I didn't get a kick out of it then.
Well, part of the discussion here was about cost
and the article has a price table comparing with
machines like the model 4
I made no inference about merit.
Indeed, the x86 chip started as a controler for
a cad terminal, and ss100 had plenty life in
it, esp with the opening it gave for others to
make cards, like the then common practice
of stuffing several single board computers into
a single ss100 chassis to get multiuser into one
box.
the x86 line had everyting to bitch about, it was
register starved and GP regs that wasnt really GP
Linux is making computing CPU agnostic however
and with a system that runs on anything, all that
matters for the hardware is price/performace.
In this new climate, perhaps the dark/ice age of
winblows dumbing down mankind will abate.
Raymond
Received on Sun Apr 28 2002 - 17:19:40 BST