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Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 06/14/06 00:00
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:11:55 -0500, "Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> Gave us:
>Think of it, Intel selling their PC chips for *more* than PCs! I bet
>you'll try to claim that 80386 and 80486 chips weren't PC microprocessors
>either.
Very few ended up in embedded applications. Not like the 186 did.
Doesn't matter whether they offered it or not.Folks were very price
conscious then, and a 186 got the same job done just as fast and even
more reliably... FOR YEARS. Its API was even better than the 286 from
a reliability POV. DOS 3.1 hit the market though, and the hard drives
were ready for the upgrades the 286 offered. Hence the skip.
You are still the idiot.
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