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Re:Whatever happened to the Hurd? (2012) by tzs on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:43AM (#12366998)
> [...] Linus Torvalds had begun his project to write a UNIX-like kernel for the IBM 386.

IBM 386? Did they mean to say Intel 386, or did Linus actually have a computer that used an IBM 386SLC, which was an 80386 that IBM designed and manufactured under license from Intel?

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Re:Whatever happened to the Hurd? (2012) by to3m on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:52AM (#12367064)
It means a 386 that was IBM-compatible, presumably.

Not sure there were all that many 386 systems that weren't, though I'm sure they exist...

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Re:Whatever happened to the Hurd? (2012) by nsxwolf on Friday August 26, 2016 @12:58PM (#12367565)
A UK company called Jarogate had a line of 386 based CP/M machines that didn't use an IBM PC compatible architecture.

CMOS versions of the 386 also showed up in some mobile phones and other embedded systems.

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