sad sad sad

[Peter L. Peres]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Justin Zygmont wrote:

> it's been a sad day today, my 386 just breathed it's last.  In memory of
> "the good days" when 100MB drives were monsters, I saved the 386sx bios,
> dip chips (ram), and the VLSI chipset.  If only electronics could speak,
> the things that motherboard could tell.  An expensive and often
> envied CPU in it's hayday, 386sx-16 managed to see MS and DR-DOS, SCO
> UNIX, and slackware linux before it's dying day.  386 was almost 14.

3 of its bereaved brothers in my cupboard and my 386/dx Compaq Aero laptop
(which is still used for embedded development) becry the loss of one of
their own. I still keep the memory and the CPU of the first XT I owned (an
AMD8088-10 - all my 386s are AMDs too) in the junkbox.

Peter

PS: I thought the list was dead on Sundays. You surprised me.
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