ScottFree interpreter for Pocket PC
Jim Leonard
trixter at oldskool.org
Tue May 10 12:45:38 CDT 2005
Ethan Dicks wrote:
> Depending on how generous or tight ones defintion of 'peecee' is,
> perhaps the NCR 34xx line... ISTR we had quad P90s with 4? 8?
> Microchannels and wads of SCSI cards and local disks when I was at
> Lucent c. 1996. From one standpoint, a box the size of a small fridge
> is not a peecee, from the other, I was told that one could plug a VGA
> monitor in, boot from a DOS floppy and play Doom... I think these
> uber-peecees were around $100K. They were certainly tens of thousands
> of dollars base, plus disk.
I work at Lucent, and I support these things (which I hate, btw -- I'd rather
admin a clone PC running ANYTHING (BSD, Linux, whatever) than the NCR boxen I
have assigned to me :-) They are more Unix-ish than a regular winbox --
multiple CPUs, Microchannel -- but they are, technically, x86 PCs.
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