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From: dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microprocessors
Message-ID: <6817@apple.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 16:13:34 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 24 16:13:34 1987
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References: <2175@tekig5.TEK.COM> <1026@hp-sdd.HP.COM> <2530@calmasd.GE.COM> <1818@epiwrl.EPI.COM>
Reply-To: dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
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Keywords: Intel, Motorola
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In article <1818@epiwrl.EPI.COM> parker@epiwrl.EPI.COM (Alan Parker) writes:
>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.
	I don't know about that, but I was working at Fortune when
the PC was released and they'd been selling (or at least trying to :-)
68000 unix boxes for some time.  The reasoning I'd heard was that IBM
was able to get Intel to commit to selling "only" to IBM for some
period in order to let IBM get a foothold in the market.  Motorola
was less than willing to do so because they already had vendors
selling the things.


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	David W. Berry
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