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From: Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no>
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Subject: Re: Byte ordering
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 10:40:09 +0200
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 19:57:44 +0300, Michael S wrote:
>=20
>> The 80386 was introduced as pre-production samples for software
>> development workstations in October 1985.[5] Manufacturing of the chip=
s
>> in significant quantities commenced in June 1986.
>=20
> And the first vendor to offer a Microsoft-compatible PC product based o=
n
> that chip? Compaq, with its =E2=80=9CDeskpro 386=E2=80=9D that same yea=
r, I believe.
>=20
I got one of those that fall, most impressive was the fact hhat you=20
could order it with a 130 MB hard drive, an almost unheard of size at=20
the time:

Even though this was an expensive PC, it cost no more with that drive=20
(i.e. the highest end version) than a Micropolis hard drive of the same=20
size. I.e. the PC was effectively free. :-)

Terje

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- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"