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- From: wargopl@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Peter L. Wargo)
- Subject: Re: What is a 386i???
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:01:45 GMT
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- guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
-
- >> I have a friend interested in buying a used Sun 386i but either of
- >>use have any idea what exactly it is. I assume that it really a ibm pc
- >>clone with sold buy Sun which happens to come with a Sun os installed.
- >>Right???
-
- >Wrong.
-
- >It's more like a Sun workstation that happens to come with a 386 and
- >(optional?) 387 as its processor, and that happens to have an AT bus as
- >its expansion bus.
-
- >It has Sun-style frame buffers, and Sun-style serial port chips, and a
- >Sun-style network interface; I think other peripherals are also
- >Sun-style peripherals.
-
- It was also pretty much of a flop. Like I told one person:
- "imagine IBM deciding to build a PC based on the 68030 and make it
- compatible with MS-DOS."
-
- -Pete
-
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