Posted by Jay G. on 06/13/06 10:42

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 03:34:54 GMT, Roy L. Fuchs wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:11:23 -0500, "Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> Gave us:
>
>>Did those devices run a PC OS? Did they have a PC amount of RAM? Did they
>>have PC connectors to the drives they ran?
>
> No, stupid fucktard. they ran motor controllers or industrial
> process controls. No PC i/o or anything else, you stupid fuck.

So, no consumer devices then.

I'm not even sure what your point is. The i80186 was also used in PCs, so
it was a PC chip in addition to whatever other uses it had. Also, HD DVD
players, in addition to having a Pentium 4 PC chip, a mobile PC chipset,
and PC RAM, also has several PC i/o devices, like the IDE HD DVD drive and
USB flash disk. So if you're trying to argue that something without PC i/o
isn't a PC, good job it's just a shame HD DVD doesn't meet that definition.

>>From what I can find, they weren't called "PCs" because they were called
>>other types of computers, like servers:
>
> You're an idiot.

You forgot the link:
http://temperature.tu-plovdiv.bg/publications/CS05_kakanakov_spasov.pdf
The experiment is made on the IPC@Chip® from Beck as a target system
(server). It has a NE2000 compatible network interface card, built-in
card driver, Real-time oper-ating system and embedded TCP/IP stack.
Its core is an I80186 microprocessor with 512MB RAM and 512MB Flash
drive. The server side code is written in C and uses op-erating
system’s APIs for creating and manipulating sockets

It's odd that when I google for 'i80186 "motor controllers"', nothing comes
up. Likewise with 'i80186 "industrial process controls"'. Yet, when I
google for 'i80186 server," several hundred hits come up.

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