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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