mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) (07/12/90)
[The following is a repost of an article which seems to have failed to leave my site. My apologies if you get two copies.] I need to get some historical dates for the introduction of PC technology. Please correct my list: PC - 1980 or so AT - 1984? PS/2 - 1987 8086 - 1978 or 79 286 - 1983? 386 - 1985? 86? 486 - April 89
lee@chsun1.uchicago.edu (dwight lee) (07/13/90)
mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes: >I need to get some historical dates for the introduction of PC technology. >Please correct my list: >PC - 1980 or so >AT - 1984? >PS/2 - 1987 > >8086 - 1978 or 79 1978 >286 - 1983? >386 - 1985? 86? 1985 >486 - April 89 This is from a relatively current (1990) textbook on computer architecture entitled _Computer Organization and Architecture_ Second Edition by William Stallings, PhD published by Macmillan (New York). In the References section, a valuable source for information on microprocessors may be: Gupta, A, and Toong, H. "Microprocessors - The First Twelve Years." /Proceedings of the IEEE/, November 1983. Sorry I can't fill out or confirm more of your date list but the two up there are the only ones the text specifically mentions. If you want more sources, I can dig them out of the References section. Send mail. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dwight A Lee / 416 Annie Glidden Rd #B6 / DeKalb IL 60115 / 815-758-1389 lee@chsun.uchicago.edu / "I am not the only dust my mother raised" - TMBG I speak only for myself. / tCS/BB / Font
geiser@apollo.HP.COM (Wayne Geiser) (07/13/90)
In article <31653@cup.portal.com>, mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes: |> [The following is a repost of an article which seems to have failed to |> leave my site. My apologies if you get two copies.] |> |> I need to get some historical dates for the introduction of PC technology. |> Please correct my list: |> |> PC - 1980 or so August 14, 1981 |> AT - 1984? |> PS/2 - 1987 |> |> 8086 - 1978 or 79 |> 286 - 1983? |> 386 - 1985? 86? |> 486 - April 89 Sorry I can't fill in more. Wayne Geiser Apollo Computer, Inc. - A subsidiary of Hewlett Packard geiser@apollo.hp.com "Talk lives in the head. If there is nothing else there to keep it company, talk becomes lonely, and escapes through the mouth." - East African proverb