80286, flaming and Multics

[Dana Myers]

  Ok, already, stop flaming the 286! What's the point? If you care about
selling Unix, you need to swallow your pride and sell where you can. A lot
of folks have AT class machines, and each and every one of these people
present a potential Unix installation, despite the fact that the 286 is
not optimum or pretty.

  The 80286 was designed by people who liked Multics and figured they would
make the perfect microprocessor to run Multics on. So, Multics was
designed 20 years ago... so what? ;-)

  The above info about 286 and Multics was related by an Intel person
who should know. So stop sniveling! :-)

Dana H. Myers
Locus Computing Corp.
Inglewood, CA

bilbo.dana at seas.ucla.edu