So Linux isn't ready for the desktop yet, eh? (fwd)

Mark Hertel mhertel at cs.uml.edu
Sat Aug 18 20:02:50 EDT 2001


On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 06:03:50PM -0400, ccb at valinux.com wrote:
> 
> <snipped>
> 
> The DEC Rainbow was an 8086 box that was "better" (in that special DEC
> way) than a PC and almost compatible with it.

The Rainbow also included a Z80 processor. It was advertised that 
it could run the tried and true CPM software and that newer PC
stuff. I think it also had single sided quad density floppies that
no one else ever was able to use.


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Mark Hertel
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