On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 at 14:55, Christian Groessler via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > I think Compaq was the first company to offer a 386 PC back then (before > IBM). > > I remember, when I worked as a student at MBB around 1988, that we > visited another department (just next door) to see the Compaq 386 they > had in action.
Exactly. We already had a demo PS/2 Model 70, a screaming 25MHz 80386DX _with motherboard cache_. But it cost over £10,000 in 1988 and I don't remember us ever selling one. (My Acorn Archimedes – 8MHz ARM2 – ran rings around it, which delighted me. IIRC interpreted BBC BASIC V on RISC OS was substantially faster than BASIC compiled with MS QuickBASIC 3 on PC DOS.) I think the Compaq was a Deskpro, and I was installing Netware 3 on it. From floppies. Lots and lots of floppies. I had to mess around with IRQ and DMA settings on its Ethernet and SCSI cards, so I had the lid off... and left it off when I went to lunch. Oops... -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
