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From: brian@digi-g.UUCP (Merlyn Leroy)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: The 80*86 family
Message-ID: <544@digi-g.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Apr-85 12:36:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  4 12:36:39 1985
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Organization: Digigraphic Systems Corp., Mpls, MN
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Summary: 

<Santa Claus is computer literate>

In article <5355@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>...The new x86 chips are 8086 compatible, the 8086 had a lot of 8080
>compatibility, the 8080 was source-compatible with the 8008, and the 8008
>was pretty much an 8-bit 4004.  Isn't it thrilling to know that you're
>programming a machine descended from a souped-up calculator?

With such maaavelous backward compatability, it only confirms my opinion:
the 80*86 family is the most backward cpu set I've ever seen...

Merlyn Leroy