October 9, 2014 at 11:19 am
It was a Victor 9000. as i recall, it has an Intel 8086 chip. when the IBM machines came out with an 8088, they were slower than the 9000, and the disk drives held less. I noticed that some of the writeups state it had an 8088, but I'm pretty sure ours had an 8086 chip. It operated two to three times as fast as the IBM clunker.
The more you are prepared, the less you need it.
October 9, 2014 at 12:01 pm
Andrew..Peterson (10/9/2014)
It was a Victor 9000. as i recall, it has an Intel 8086 chip. when the IBM machines came out with an 8088, they were slower than the 9000, and the disk drives held less. I noticed that some of the writeups state it had an 8088, but I'm pretty sure ours had an 8086 chip. It operated two to three times as fast as the IBM clunker.
If you are referring to Xenix, it was a MS Unix they licenced from AT&T.
If you are referring to something else then I am sure you are right. 🙂
Gaz
-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!
October 9, 2014 at 12:28 pm
Ours used MSDOS.
Still the point about Multiplan and Microsoft not liking to code for different platforms has not changed.
The more you are prepared, the less you need it.
October 9, 2014 at 12:58 pm
Gotcha. I was being slow.
...and I agree. Multiplatform is like multithreading; it isn't easy but is not too hard if you take care to understand it. Most people don't put the effort in to understand it.
Gaz
-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!
October 10, 2014 at 11:17 am
Join the club. I completely went from your reference to Xenix (a unix variant), to my long forgotten days with the Victor 9000 (an early PC). Back then I was a CPA at an accounting firm. (and yes, very boring), but during the summer I designed a way to automate the Medicare cost reports. conclusion: accounting - boring; technology - fun.
The more you are prepared, the less you need it.
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