mini versus micro?

Wed May 18 02:02:10 CDT 2005

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Tony Duell wrote:

> My first thought on reading Sellam's definition was 'hey, that means the
> PC/AT is a mini, it's got the 80286 + an 8042 keyboard interface + an
> 8048 in the keyboard'. Then I read it again and realised he'd said 'for
> general purpose programming', which rules out the microcontrollers in the
> keyboard, keyboard interface, drives, etc. Although arguably the graphics
> processor does count.

The definition is not smart-ass proof ;)

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