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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
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Subject: Re: 386 PC vs Sun
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Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 17:24:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 29 17:24:59 1986
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In article <2586@watdcsu.UUCP> magore@watdcsu.UUCP (M.A.Gore - ICR) writes:
:	Yes but  it's worse the the 68000 took so long to come out. While
:the teams designing the 68k were backstabbing each other Intel had
:chips. I like the 68k (have one) IBM *would* have used them had they
:been out in time. Note that the 68k ref. manual states that the 68k
:was designed with the 6809 in mind --- so as with Intel for GOOD
:market reasons. Market reasons are more important then the BEST
:hardware that can be had (sooooooo sad but true). 

If the stories of the IBM PC's short design cycle are anywhere near true,
the 68k was definitely available when the PC design was started.

I suspect IBM chose the 8088 to save some money on chepaer chips and an 8 bit
bus, and because Bill Gates had told them a ten times jump in memory size would
be sufficient to differentiate the IBM PC from the 8-bit machines of the time.

I'm sure IBM also wanted to make it easy to port 8 bit CP/M applications to
the PC.   The main legacy that remains from this is MSDOS's CP/M-80 inherited
brain damage.

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX Author of Pro-YAM communications Tools for PCDOS and Unix
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