From: INABU@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Arnd Burghardt) Subject: Intel, the Pentium and Linux Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 09:29:39 GMT
Hi folks,
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Yesterday i visited the CEBIT (hannover, germany), where Intel was presenting
the Pentium (586) processor. They had four (in words 4) machines with this
beast running. So they presented it nicely (unly by running picture shows),
this i could do on a 80286 ;-)). The presentor promised it to be binary
compatible to the i486, and I said I don't believe. I showed him a ONE_DISK_
Linux-System (Emergency disk, with patched lilo to boot from disk), and said
him : Convice me, boot this : No guts, no glory ! A he decided no glory.
He won't let anybody touch his holy cows, and not even boot a suspect OS.
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I thought by myself 'This is the coward of the day' and went back to earth.
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What cn we learn : this technology is far from industrial-standarts, so you
can expect this beast in your local computer-shop at least in spring next
year....
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only my 2cents....
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