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  1. 06-02-2005, 03:41 PM #1
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    Thumbs up Heh! Good ol' ECS!

    http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121106,00.asp
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  2. 06-02-2005, 04:34 PM #2
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    Working systems running both processors were on show on the ECS booth at Computex running the Pentium 4 and AMD Athlon 64 processors.
    Pity they don't mean both at once

    Don't really understand why they waste their time on this. Did their engineeers need a project to practice on?
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  3. 06-02-2005, 10:56 PM #3
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    LOL, so cheap I'll take two so I don't have to swap back and forth. DOH!
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  4. 06-02-2005, 11:51 PM #4
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    I worked for a company that had a similar (sort of) product.
    The board had an 80286 and 80287 and up to 2MB(!) of RAM.
    You plugged this fullsize board into a slot in your PC-XT (with its 640K RAM).
    You ran some software on the host PC-XT and it transfered program control to the installed board, so you were running your apps on the 286/287 and the native 8086 was running all the I/O, including running a generic graphics driver, in effect giving a multiprocessor multitasking machine.

    That was in 1986.

    Of course, nowadays, there are all sorts of specific processors doing that type of housekeeping, SCSI running the disk I/O, graphics chips running the display adapters but back then? We were the bee's knees.

    Maybe they borrowed our software?
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  5. 06-03-2005, 12:02 AM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ron
    That was in 1986.
    I thought ya'll were still relying on the abacus and slide rule back then...
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