Five and quarter drives

[Scott Stevens]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:41:10 +0000
Gordon JC Pearce <gordon at gjcp.net> wrote:

> Scott Stevens wrote:
> 
> > I am not familiar with the Altos 386.  Is it an 8086 machine?  The
> > 586 is a 5-user 8086 machine (five serial ports to attach
> > terminals).
> 
> Yes, it's got an 80386, an 80387, and an 80186 (presumably for
> handling i/o).  On the huge option board, it has six more serial ports
> (making 14 in all), an AUI network port and another 15-pin D that I
> can't identify. 
>   The option board has an 80286 all to itself!
> 
> Gordon.

That machine is much, much newer than my Altos 586, then.  By '8086
machine' I meant a machine specifically with the original 8086 CPU.  The
Altos 586 has the single 8086 processor doing 'all the work.'  It's
pretty impressive how much it does, with an 8086 and a meg of RAM.

Yours must run an OS (probably Xenix) that is generations newer than
mine.