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From: parker@epiwrl.EPI.COM (Alan Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microprocessors
Message-ID: <1818@epiwrl.EPI.COM>
Date: Sat, 21-Nov-87 16:54:42 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 21 16:54:42 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 23-Nov-87 04:45:13 EST
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Reply-To: parker@epiwrl.EPI.COM (Alan Parker)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Washington, DC
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Keywords: Intel, Motorola
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In article <2530@calmasd.GE.COM> jnp@calmasd.GE.COM (John Pantone) writes:
>(Tom Hoff) writes:
>When the IBM PC was being designed the Intel 8088/6 was already available in
>trial quantities - it was available in production quantities before the PC
>hit the streets.  Motorola's 68000 wasn't yet that far along at the time -
>so it never was really a candidate.
>
Is that right?   I'm pretty sure that my lab had some Sun workstations
(first model) before IBM PCs hit the street.   I could be wrong.