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From: jlb@aipna.ed.ac.uk (John Beaven)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: When will the 8088 die?
Message-ID: <3622@aipna.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Dec 90 00:16:14 GMT
Reply-To: jlb@aipna.ed.ac.uk (John Beaven)
Organization: Dept of AI, Edinburgh University, UK.
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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.

John