Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:12665 comp.sys.cbm:972
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!elg
From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Hardware/software mixes.
Message-ID: <2734@killer.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 88 07:21:23 GMT
References: <2679@killer.UUCP>
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in article <2679@killer.UUCP>, ltf@killer.UUCP (Lance Franklin) says:
> Xref: killer comp.sys.amiga:13208 comp.sys.cbm:1096
> However, I think it would have been much better if CBM had dropped an 8088
> into the thing, rather than a Z-80.  

You have GOT to be kidding. Have you ever seen the PINOUTS of an 8088? The
address and data busses are multiplexed on top of one another... it would have
raised the chip count of the machine beyond its current ridiculous number to
do all of the clock generation, address latching, etc. required by an 8088.

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