My first Personal Computer - with the Intel 80286
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"The M28 was Olivetti’s first PC to have the Intel 80286 processor. The Intel 80286 had a 24-bit address bus and was able to address up to 16 MB of RAM, compared to the 1 MB addressability of its predecessor. However, memory cost and the initial rarity of software using the memory above 1 MB meant that 80286 computers were rarely shipped with more than one megabyte of RAM. The 80286 was designed for multi-user systems with multitasking applications."
3 Comments
DanishScorpio  [author] Sep 21, 2018 @ 3:44pm 
Thanks - and yes it was a power house back in the day :joyface:
M Sep 21, 2018 @ 7:31am 
What a beast :D Btw nice profile :)
Fairway Frank Sep 16, 2018 @ 11:24pm 
My first was a 386 that I crushed Ultima 7 and Civilization on until it broke. I rememeber playing on my cousin's brand new pentium and the other Red Baron players on The Sierra Network/The Imagination Network said it was no fair becuase our planes were too fast.