From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux
Article-I.D.: openage.1993Apr04.175934.8526
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
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INABU@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Arnd Burghardt) writes:

>Hi folks,
> 
>Yesterday i visited the CEBIT (hannover, germany), where Intel was presenting
>the Pentium (586) processor. They had four (in words 4) machines with this
>beast running. So they presented it nicely (unly by running picture shows),
>this i could do on a 80286 ;-)). The presentor promised it to be binary
>compatible to the i486, and I said I don't believe. I showed him a ONE_DISK_
>Linux-System (Emergency disk, with patched lilo to boot from disk), and said
>him : Convice me, boot this :  No guts, no glory ! A he decided no glory.
>He won't let anybody touch his holy cows, and not even boot a suspect OS.
> 
>I thought by myself 'This is the coward of the day' and went back to earth.
> 
>What cn we learn : this technology is far from industrial-standarts, so you
>can expect this beast in your local computer-shop at least in spring next
>year....
> 
>only my 2cents....

Yes only your $00.02.  Here's mine.

If I were running at a new chip at a Trade show, and had little to no real
technical knowledge,  I wouldn't let some stranger with a diskette boot my demo
machine.  If the demo machine is down too long people will not see my nice
demos, and if this purposted LINUX diskette is really something that will wipe
the disk, or is loaded with a VIRUS!, I'm in deep trouble.

No marketer in their right mind would let you do this, unless they had
specifically invited people to do so, and provided machines to do it with.

We can we learn : This technology will be shipping from PC vendors in May 1993,
and will be i486 compatible.

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