[rescue] OT: Solaris for Intel

[joshua d boyd]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 03:09:38AM +0000, wa2egp at att.net wrote:
> > What really takes the cake though is C64 owners.  
> Multitasking OS and a
> > SCSI HD, all on an 8 bit toy.
> > 16bit processor (SCPU-20MHz)
> 8 bit toy with a 16 bit processor?  The CoCo stayed 8 
> bit but there was a replacement chip that had a 32 bit 
> register so you could do 32 bit math on an 8 bit chip.

Uhm, 32bit math on an 8 bit chip?  Wouldn't that just be a 32bit chip
then?  I thought the most recent concensus was that a x bit chip was  a
chip that used x bit registers for the integer registers.
 
> > SCSI interface (Any CMD harddisk has it on-board)
> > IDE controler (IDE64 for any IDE HDD up to 2x8Gb, 
> Atapi CD-Rom)
> Available boards/interfaces for the CoCo too.  Used SCSI 
> on mine.

Sigh.  Sounds like it woulda been a fun platform.
 
> They both had their place but I preferred the CoCo over 
> the 64. More reliable. Radio Shack thought of it as a 
> toy but for its price and speed, it was darn powerful 
> for a toy.  The only reason it died was that Tandy hired 
> someone to run their computer division and he came from 
> the Wintel world where nothing else existed.  Several 
> other non-PC machines were also discontinued at the same 
> time.

So again, the suits ruined the party.  And now they want to take the net
from us too.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd