Thomas C Sobczynski wrote:
> 
> Well, if you define living in the era of the 8086 or 80286 as life
> worth living...  :)

Yes, those were the days. Where I worked we had a VAXcluster of one 8600
and two 11/785s as well as a CDC Cyber.

I actually used a 286 running DOS and something called Cylynx+ (French
software) to monitor the big iron. Called my beeper if one of them
didn't respond. So even a 286 could be useful.

Gunnar

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