Re: Byte ordering

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 19:57:44 +0300, Michael S wrote:
 

The 80386 was introduced as pre-production samples for software
development workstations in October 1985.[5] Manufacturing of the chips
in significant quantities commenced in June 1986.

 And the first vendor to offer a Microsoft-compatible PC product based on
that chip? Compaq, with its “Deskpro 386” that same year, I believe.
 

I got one of those that fall, most impressive was the fact hhat you could order it with a 130 MB hard drive, an almost unheard of size at the time:
Even though this was an expensive PC, it cost no more with that drive (i.e. the highest end version) than a Micropolis hard drive of the same size. I.e. the PC was effectively free. :-)
Terje
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