Motorola, Intel, Ibm Make a Mainframe in a PC – the PC Xt/370
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The PC XT/370 was a PC-based mainframe solution developed by Motorola, Intel, and IBM, and commenters reflect on similar historical attempts to miniaturize mainframe technology.
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AstroJetson
4 months ago
At one point Burroughs did the same thing, there was a chip version of the Burroughs A Series processor. Soon after Intel chips became much more powerful and they could run a software emulation.
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