sad sad sad

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Oct 20 16:36:15 UTC 2003


On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:06:38AM -0400, 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.

I never admired the 386SX, only the DX.  Chopping of half the data bus
of a a poor defenseless 386 just seemed cruel, all to satisfy the
marketing weenies. :)

Lennart Sorensen
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