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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 8-bit death
Message-ID: <1991May10.005625.8463@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 10 May 91 00:56:25 GMT
References: <165.tnews@ping.actrix.gen.nz>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA)
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As quoted from <165.tnews@ping.actrix.gen.nz> by ping@ping.actrix.gen.nz (Peter Ingham):
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| Commercially you could argue that Intel's decision was correct,  many 
| followed their direction and they have sold MPU's at a rate _FAR_ 
| exceeding _any_ other manufacturer.
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Had this been true, CP/M-86 would have dominated the Intel market long since
--- CP/M-86 came with a program that would convert any CP/M-80 assembler
program to CP/M-86 by tweaking assembler mnemonics.  What made Intel a winner
was the IBM PC --- no more, no less.

Which raises a ghastly "what-if":  IBM originally wanted to use the 68000 for
the PC, but Motorola wasn't shipping....

++Brandon
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