Subj : Re: hello! :DD
To   : AKAcastor
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Apr 17 2024 07:01:00

-=> AKAcastor wrote to Blue White <=-

 AK> Got stuck on with the Tandy a long time, then finally got a 486DLC-40
 AK> with 4 megs of RAM - what a machine! :)

 That was a wild time - 1993 to 1995 or so. 486es came out, then EISA
 versus VLB versus SCSI wars, then wars over clock-doubling - was a
 486DX50 a better choice than a 486DX2/66?

 Then came the clones - AMD, Cyrix, IBM, and others I've forgotten about
 all came up with their down 486-esque designs. We had problems with
 Windows 3.1 and the Cyrix chips, so the users would trade them for
 Intel 486 boxes and we'd run BSD/OS in the server room on them just
 fine.

 Then, the first Pentium/66s showed up and blew them all away. The 486
 era was gone, just like >that<.



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