[vcf-midatlantic] Help needed: PS/2 or a clone

william degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Mon Mar 28 15:11:11 EDT 2016


On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> 3.1 is 386 but really 486
>>
>
> Correct.
>
> I'm just beginning to get comfortable -- well, tolerable -- of the concept
> of having a 386 in the museum. :)  But a 486? No way ..... ask me in
> another 10 years. :)
>


Windows 3.1 was 1993, by then you could get a Pentium, and certainlyin 1993
486 was the hot processor.  You really can't justify displaying a 1993
Windows 3.1 system and be historically correct without a 1993 or 1994
system, too.  Realistically the 486 was in its prime in 1993.

I mean you could attempt to run an 80's 286 or early 1990's i386, but that
would be more Windows 3.0 / DOS 5.0.

Maybe as a compromise you should do a Windows 3.0 or Windows 2.0 (aka
Windows 386) system.  Hold off on the Windows 3.1 if the 486 is too new.  I
can understand that, but I don't think it's accurate to mix and match,
you're either all in or I say hold off.
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