Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:4389 comp.sys.intel:1516 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!ogicse!pdxgate!eecs!berggren From: berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: When will the 8088 die? Message-ID: <853@pdxgate.UUCP> Date: 5 Dec 90 22:48:03 GMT References: <90335.202651F0O@psuvm.psu.edu> <2842@polari.UUCP> <1990Dec5.184958.26371@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@pdxgate.UUCP Lines: 23 cy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Conway Yee) writes: >In article <2842@polari.UUCP> lsh@polari.UUCP (Lee Hauser) writes: >>The 8088 will die when you can get a 386-33 or similarly speeded 486 system for >>the price of an 8088 system. >I am not sure I can agree. If this were to happen, then the 8088 will simply >move onto other uses. Today, the 8088 is too expensive to put to those >uses. Later, 8088 prices will drop sufficiently that they will become >affordable. Exactly what uses for an 8088 did you have in mind that are impractical due to the price? I can buy 8-Mhz 8088's for $8 each. Even a Nintendo uses more sophisticated technology. Besides, by the time a 386 system comes down to the current price of an 8088 systen ( around $450), I doubt ANYBODY would have a use for it. Our refridgerator uses a 186 for control (one of those fancy kind). The reason that's so cheap, is because the chip was so flawed for any PC system. ============================================================================== "Round and round the while() loop goes; Whether it stops," Turing says, "nobody knows."