sad sad sad
Justin Zygmont
jzygmont-tEQKYFGiemxAYG7eUwYNkWD2FQJk+8+b at public.gmane.org
Mon Oct 20 00:13:46 UTC 2003
I had some of my favourite games that would only run on a 386 procesor
too, I wonder if bochs would run it but probably not.
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Peter L. Peres wrote:
>
> 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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