On 10/05/2017 04:22 AM, allison via cctalk wrote: > Funny the market knew of the 386 in the fall of '85 but it would be > three years before I'd see > one in the field. Disks and CPUs lagged the introductions by years due > to cost.
It was hard to rationalize the extra cost of a 16MHz 80386 when there was little software or performance gain over a fast 80286 box when running MS-DOS--the dominant OS of the day. I recall an Intel engineer opining on the subject. "We give you a 32-bit advanced architecture CPU and you p*ss it away running DOS." Compatibility is a tough mistress. --Chuck
