Subj : Re: hello! :DD
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : mary4
Date : Thu Apr 18 2024 08:51:20

 pF>  That was a wild time - 1993 to 1995 or so. 486es came out, then EISA
 pF>  versus VLB versus SCSI wars, then wars over clock-doubling - was a
 pF>  486DX50 a better choice than a 486DX2/66?
 pF>
i have a 286 dx1 @ 33mHz xD
>  Then came the clones - AMD, Cyrix, IBM, and
others I've forgotten about
 pF>  all came up with their down 486-esque designs. We had problems with
 pF>  Windows 3.1 and the Cyrix chips, so the users would trade them for
 pF>  Intel 486 boxes and we'd run BSD/OS in the server room on them just
 pF>  fine.
 pF>
nice!!
 pF>  Then, the first Pentium/66s showed up and blew them all away.
the 486
 pF>  era was gone, just like >that<.
 pF> 
fug

--mary4 (Victoria Crenshaw) the 286 enthusiast

.... A social life? Where can I download that!?

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