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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (160350)	2/26/2002 9:33:57 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

*Re: That wasn't the Pentium, Dan. That was the 386.* You're right, I was writing too quickly. I hope you still picked up on what I meant. Wrong again. By the time there was a significant base of 32-bit apps, 32-bit processors were all over the place. The selling point of "32-bits" applied to SOFTWARE, not HARDWARE. Tenchsatsu, I was there. Buying IBM model 70's and model 80's and Everex Step machines and running fortran on SCO UNIX because there wasn't anything mainstream in terms of desktop applications available other than Windows 286 and DOS for the IBMs. (and WordPerfect and Dbase II and Lotus and terminal emulators to let you get to the mainframe - all 16 bit applications at that time). Did you know that it was necessary to change the memory controller chip in the Everex Step to use a 32 bit OS like SCO? We eventually got IBM OS/2 1.0 for the Model 80's (no graphical interface, but it was 32 bit, and it worked and we had some 3rd party fortran compiler for it) Have you ever installed an OS with over 50 diskettes (or tried to) several times before finding that out? ... it takes a long time and is very annoying. After getting a hold of someone at Everex who knew what was going on, they were able to send out new memory controllers in the form of replacement DIP chips (the controller chips were socketed) that we replaced as though they were boot ROMs and that fixed the problem.