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From: burton@parcvax.Xerox.COM (Philip M. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Intel Microprocessors
Message-ID: <412@parcvax.Xerox.COM>
Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 17:35:26 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  6 17:35:26 1987
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Reply-To: burton@parcvax.xerox.com.UUCP (Philip M. Burton)
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Guys, you are missing the point. IBM obviously chose the 8086 because it was
an easy upgrade from the 8080.  In fact DOS 1.0 had specific features that resembled
CP/M 80.  DOS 1.0, crude as it was, was aneasier upgrade than CPM/80.


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Philip Burton
Xerox Corporation    408 737 4635
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