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From: richard@pnet02.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
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Subject: Re: Amiga vs. IBM-PC: A Performance Query
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Date: Fri, 22-May-87 19:31:02 EDT
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Is this why Lattice 'C' manual for the PC says something
to the effect that "... because of the complex nature
of the 8086, no registers are left over to use as
register variables..."

Intel and IBM deserve each other.

Whatever happened to IBM's scientific division 68K computer.

One popular conspiricy theory down here is that IBM evaluated
Z8000, 68000 and 8086 and picked the lowest performence
machine, to prevent the embaressing event where one
of their 68020 machines would run rings around their 
minis, and by using an 8088 would ... etc

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