Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!midway!chsun1!lee From: lee@chsun1.uchicago.edu (dwight lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Historical Dates for PC's Needed Message-ID: Date: 13 Jul 90 01:14:38 GMT References: <31653@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations Lines: 36 mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes: >I need to get some historical dates for the introduction of PC technology. >Please correct my list: >PC - 1980 or so >AT - 1984? >PS/2 - 1987 > >8086 - 1978 or 79 1978 >286 - 1983? >386 - 1985? 86? 1985 >486 - April 89 This is from a relatively current (1990) textbook on computer architecture entitled _Computer Organization and Architecture_ Second Edition by William Stallings, PhD published by Macmillan (New York). In the References section, a valuable source for information on microprocessors may be: Gupta, A, and Toong, H. "Microprocessors - The First Twelve Years." /Proceedings of the IEEE/, November 1983. Sorry I can't fill out or confirm more of your date list but the two up there are the only ones the text specifically mentions. If you want more sources, I can dig them out of the References section. Send mail. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dwight A Lee / 416 Annie Glidden Rd #B6 / DeKalb IL 60115 / 815-758-1389 lee@chsun.uchicago.edu / "I am not the only dust my mother raised" - TMBG I speak only for myself. / tCS/BB / Font