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Subject: Re: Intel Microprocessors (History)
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John Plocher uwvax!geowhiz!uwspan!plocher is to be thanked for an interesting
and informative summary of chip history.  I have to disagree with his
opinions on a couple of points.

First, the Z80 is not an Intel chip, it's Zilog, a company started by Intel
renegades.  I seem to recall that when CP/M was *the* micro OS, the Z80 was
*the* chip.

First, while it's helpful of Plocher to debunk the conspiracy theories spouted
by people angry at IBM, it's also worth thinking about how the IBM PC and its
kin are standing in the way of progress in micro OS and applications, and
flamming or excusing IBM for its dicisions of 7 years ago won't change that.
Perhaps it would be worth talking about what we're gonna do about the problem,
rather than rehahsing its olitlitl