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From: brad@looking.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Intel Microprocessors
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Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 02:18:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 12 02:18:28 1987
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Waterloo, Ontario
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You folks astound me.  What world do you live in?

In the real world, there are lots of other constraints in choosing a
chip than what the architecture looks like to software.

The appearance of the architecture is important, but it's only one of
several constraints.  It is for the other constraints that IBM selected the
8088, and I have yet to see a serious argument as to how they could have
selected the 68000 at the time.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473