<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 6 Dec 2024 at 12:13, Al Kossow <<a href="mailto:aek@bitsavers.org">aek@bitsavers.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 12/6/24 8:38 AM, Arthur Krewat wrote:<br>
> /his was before IBM came on board/<br>
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and IBM had no interest in the 386 at the time<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Are you referring strictly to the 386 as a UNIX machine? The 386 shipped in 1986 and the IBM PS/2 Model 80 (with a 386) shipped in '87. My assumption is that the driving factor in keeping the lower end PS/2 machines around was cost - at launch, a PS/2 with an 8086 was $2300 while one with a 386 was over $10k. Of course, the 386 PS/2 was initially targeted at OS/2 and not UNIX; from what I can find AIX PS/2 didn't ship until at least late 1988.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-Henry<br></div></div></div>