The Mac Geek Geechab number 386.

386. For Tuesday, March 20, 2012. 12. Go readings folks

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Here in Durham, New Hampshire, back in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.

Oh, right.

And here, in Fairfield, Connecticut, John F. Braun and I got to say

386 brings back such wonderful memories as some may know though you know I'm looking at

the history here I didn't think it was that long ago but as you may know the 386 was

shorthand for a processor that Intel released oh in 1985. Really? The 880? I'm

looking at 803.

Right, okay, yeah.

And that was the processor that was in the IBM PC AT, right?

The XT had a 286, or was the AT a 286?

The AT was a 286.

So the first PC was the 80 86.

The 286 was the AT, it means technology, and then the 386 was the next and then the

486 and all that.

Yeah, yeah, the 386, but that was a big deal when the 386 came out.

I mean that was a that was a smoking fast machine in the windows world obviously

We never ran never ran max on 386s. Yeah, well reading here and I remember because I did some dabbling you know programming at a low level on it and I guess the the nice thing about this is that it offered a I think a flat memory model which if you don't know what that means don't worry about it but it was a big deal

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