Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/08/08/06:06:19
James MacDonald wrote:
> In article <97Aug1.161808gmt+0100 DOT 17048 AT internet01 DOT amc DOT de>, Chris
> Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de> scribbled :
> >In those days there was no WWW or even Internet to get
> >them from...
>
> Wow, so Intel was around in the 60's and early 70's producing 8088
> manuals? Hmm..
Wake up at the back there. The term "Internet" was not used until
the 80s, before then it was a set of partially connected networks
including ARPANET (to which the company for whom I worked did have
limited access in 1982 but Intel didn't put their manuals on it)
and a load of UUCP machines.
And it certainly was the 8086 to which I was referring, which was
commercially available by 1980 at least.
(There was no significant WWW until the early 90s, as I recall...)
Chris C
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