sad sad sad

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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. :)
Wasn't the reason for that, so that motherboard manufacturer could 
quickly adapt a 286 motherboard to the new chip?


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