ScottFree interpreter for Pocket PC
Doc Shipley
doc at mdrconsult.com
Tue May 10 11:56:17 CDT 2005
der Mouse wrote:
>>I have an Altos 586, an 8086 machine that is completely NOT a
>>pee-cee.
>
>
> Hm, that might be an interesting question. What machines are there
> built around x86 CPUs but which are definitely not peecees?
>
> I suspect there are more of them with the earlier CPUs (8086) than with
> the later ('386, '486, Pentium, etc). The latest one that comes to my
> mind immediately is Sun's 386i (the "Road Runner").
The SGI 320 and 540 are arguably not PeeCees even though they run
Windows. The firmware is nothing like the normal x86 BIOS.
Doc
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