Doctor John wrote:
> On Sunday 8th June the 8086 will be 30 years old.
> Let the festivities begin and may the joy be unbounded
> 
> John

I was hoping to see at least a rough render in P.B.I. celebrating this. 
A computer with a graphics demo on the screen portraying the best the 
8086 had to offer would be a nice touch :)

What kind of computer was yours, exactly?

The first computer we (my brother, actually) owned was a Tandy Color 
Computer 2. He got an extended basic CC3 soon after. It had 256b, I 
believe. His skewed-perspective, line-rendered heightfield program 
(Editmont) crashed the poor thing routinely. But the drawing program 
with up to forty 30x30p animatable frames worked like a charm! Great 
times...

Incidently, how do you remember that your 8086 is 30 years old today? It 
it your birthday?

Sam

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