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From: kdq@demott.com (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: When will the 8088 die?
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.225142.14970@demott.com>
Date: 7 Dec 90 22:51:42 GMT
References: <3622@aipna.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
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In article <3622@aipna.ed.ac.uk> jlb@aipna.ed.ac.uk (John Beaven) writes:
>May I just point out that the Amstrad PCW 8256 family, which is a CP/M
>machine with a Z80, 256 or 512 k of ram and 1 or 2 floppies, bundled
>with a printer and a rather nice word processing program (for a first
>machine), is still selling strong (for about UK #250), at least in
>Europe (dunno about the US).
>
>Which makes me think the 8088 has still some life.

    Does the fact that 6502's (about about 25 cents each) are still being
sold by the millions give you a clue about the 8088 dying soon?



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