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The HandBook 486 also has a pointing device similar to the IBM trackpoint located on the right hand side of the keyboard just above the enter key. The Gateway HandBook remains one of the smallest laptops ever produced and was a precursor to Netbooks such as the Asus Eee PC , the Dell Inspiron Mini Series , and the Acer Aspire One .
It was relatively common on computers using the Intel 80286, [1] 80386 and 80486 processors, [2] from the mid 1980s to mid 1990s. The name is inspired by turbocharger, a device which increases an engine's power and efficiency. When pressed, the "turbo" button is intended to let a computer run at the highest speed for which it had been designed.
Industry standard ISA/PCI architecture, [1] first IBM machines with USB.Processors ranged from the 486DX2-50, 486SX-25, 486DX4-100 to the Pentium 200 and in case of the Models 360 and 365 the Pentium Pro. 486 models had a selectable bus architecture (SelectaBus) through a replaceable riser-card, offering the choice of either VESA Local Bus/ISA or PCI/ISA.
Compaq released two versions of the Compaq Portable 486 with a faster, 66 MHz Intel 80486DX2 CPU, named the Compaq Portable 486/66 for the monochrome version and the Compaq Portable 486/66c for the color version. [5] Compaq worked with Network General which released branded versions of the Compaq Portable 486 as "Network Sniffers". [7]
Like the later and more famous Cyrix Cx5x86, it is a hybrid CPU, incorporating features of a new CPU (the Intel 80486) while plugging into its predecessor's (386DX) PGA132 socket. It runs at speeds of 25, 33, and 40 MHz. [4] The 486DLC can be described as a 386DX with the 486 instruction set and 1 KB of on-board L1 cache added.
Allied owned the New Idea farm equipment brand and formed a new division called White-New Idea. The White combine line was sold to Massey Ferguson in the late 1980s. As it happened, Massey Ferguson later spun off the combine division into Massey Combines, then later re-absorbed the company after various lawsuits.
Commodore PC 10-II. The Commodore PC 10-II is a minor revision of the original PC 10. It have mainly the same specifications and casing, but the main difference is that it has a new revised single motherboard opposed to the original PC 10 that have two motherboards combined. As the original PC 10, it comes with dual floppy drives and no hard drive.
The only operating system which fully supported the SystemPro's asymmetric multiprocessing was a custom version of SCO Unix, sold by Compaq. However, when running OS/2 , certain applications (notably Sybase SQL Server ) could be offloaded to the second processor, and later, Novell NetWare SFT-III was able to offload its I/O engine.