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From: fortin@zap.uniforum.qc.ca (Denis Fortin)
Subject: Re: Question: First Co to use Intel 386; What is COW?
References: <299tfjINNl0o@angola.ai.cs.yale.edu> <29cto1$sor@scratchy.reed.edu> <CExnCr.7tC@zap.uniforum.qc.ca> <29m7j5$dah@fw.novatel.ca>
Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers
Organization: zap, Montreal, QC
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1993 11:47:38 GMT
Message-ID: <CEznFt.HDz@zap.uniforum.qc.ca>
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In article <29m7j5$dah@fw.novatel.ca>, Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@novatel.ca> wrote:
>Denis Fortin (fortin@zap.uniforum.qc.ca) wrote:
>: Yes, it was Compaq that introduced the first '386-based PC. (Which was
>: considered quite a coup at the time.)
>
>Are you sure? I have an Intel motherboard that was apparently their introduction
>of the '386 to the world. [...]
> So; Maybe Compaq introduced the first '386 PC but Intel certainly had
> the first motherboard...
This last statement may be accurate; I don't know about the motherboard.
I remember the fact that Compaq came out with its '386 PC early, because
it was really the first time that IBM wasn't "setting" the PC standard:
before that, compatibles and clones were either "IBM PC compatible",
or "AT compatible", but that time Compaq came out with their 386 PC before
IBM had one, so it couldn't be "IBM '386 compatible" (of course, it was
IBM AT compatible, but that's not the point: makers of compatible machines
were becoming large enough to "take the chance" of coming out with
new machines before IBM had "set the standard").
>Is this relevant though?
Actually, I guess it is getting old real fast... I'm redirecting
followups to alt.folklore.computers (which unfortunately I don't
get, so I guess I'm bowing out of the discussion - but I'm sure a
number of comp.os.386bsd.questions and comp.sys.intel readers will
thank me ;-).
--
Denis, not *that* old, but old enough to remember the 026 keypunch,
booting an Interdata computer from paper tape (when its core
memory was erased), and *removable* 1 MB hard disk drives.