AVR-Chat

On Oct 20, 2005, at 8:22 PM, stevech wrote:

> I think it's commonly accepted that IBM went with the Intel CPU for  
> market
> timing reasons - to hit the Christmas market window. The 8080 and  
> DOS were
> there but Moto was 6 months behind.

Had IBM invented the automobile the controls would have been horse- 
compatible. Same applies to desktop computers. CP/M, 8080, and Z-80  
were already established. IBM didn't have the imagination to do  
anything different, just bigger. So it was to be 8088. People forget  
that the IBM-PC originally shipped with 4 OS choices. IBM wanted to  
be everything to everyone. And remain horse-compatible.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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