Re: Apple and the Holy War

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <390DFA0D.64185ABA@dcnet2000.com>,
Phoenyx  <quazar@dcnet2000.com> wrote:
 
> Well, I agree about the closed systems being the death of
> many great computers. But I think better design does account
> for something. The PC kept many of the better qualities
> while upgrading CPU abilities. Once the 386 and better
> memory management came along things improved drastically.
> The next best addition was the inclusion of the co-processor
> in the cpu. I always disliked the SX chips.
 
The "SX" qualifier meant different things on a 486 and a 386:
not even the 80386DX had the FPU built-in.  On the 386,
"SX" meant a 16-bit external data bus.  Using that terminology,
the 8088 could have been called 8086SX... :-)
 
 
 
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