Sun 386i (WAS: RE: [rescue] Interactive Unix?)

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, December 11, 2001 at 12:36:35 (-0500), Corda Albert J DLVA wrote: ]
> Subject: Sun 386i (WAS: RE: [rescue] Interactive Unix?)
>
> Yep, it was 4.0.(2 or 3?) but it was unrelated to the
> "normal" version of SunOS...

I keep forgetting just how bloody old the Intel iAPX386 chip is!  Now
that I think about it I remember getting a poster of the mask from Intel
back in about 1985 when I was working on SCO Xenix/286 systems at CP
Rail! (I helped build their first computerised train and switch control
system.)  My dream back then was to get rid of that stupid horrid broken
M$-C compiler with "near" and "far" pointers, "huge" & "small" models,
etc., and to finally have a real Unix system that worked a bit more like
the VAX I'd learned on a good three years earlier.  Heck even the 11/44
with V7 was better than the stupid 286 with Xenix!

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