Non PC x86s

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In the "not-quite" category there is always the TI Professional

Around 1990 there were, AFAIK, several "superservers" that were supposed to 
de-VAX the buisiness world, running XENIX/UNIX on multiple 3/486s
Mitac? made some, and NetFrame. Same period as the CPQ SystemPro. I think 
they were serial-terminal console. Remember reading about it in PC magazine 
back-issues.

I suppose we should *like* PCs-a bit- so much of the underlying contortions 
are ca-1985 hacks, so it's not like we're running POWER, Alpha or PA-WideWord 
based machines with modified Open Firmware (add touches of SRM and SGI ARCS), 
extensible windowing system . . .

-Scott Quinn