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From: jwhitnel@csi.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The New Chips
Keywords: Intel IBM
Message-ID: <1393@csib.csi.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 88 19:02:42 GMT
References: <4746@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <4227@utai.UUCP> <1029@edge.UUCP> <330@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>
Reply-To: jwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell)
Organization: Communications Solutions Inc., San Jose, Ca
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In article <330@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> beowulf!lunge!jesup@steinmetz.UUCP writes:
|In article <1029@edge.UUCP> doug@edge.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes:
|>"Sherman, set the Wayback machine for 1980, location: Boca Raton, Florida."
"Yes, Mr. Peabody" :-)

|>Here we find the designers of the PC trying to decide which CPU to use.
|...
|>Motorola makes the 68000, but by company policy they won't sell them for
|>use in home computers.
|...
|
...
|
|Where does this "68000 is outlawed for home machines" come from, anyway?

Most of the following is second hand from Hal Handeburg's (sp?) newsletter
DTACK Grounded.  This newsletter was published from late 79 to about two
years ago and very pro-68000, but not always pro-Motorola.  According to
Hal (or FNE as he titled himself in the newsletter), Motorola's marketing
was to position the 68000 as a PDP-11 killer and that it was too powerful
and expensive for the home market.  Since his company Digital Accoustics
built a 68000 add-on board for the Apple // (remember this is around 1980)
he had lots of dealings with the Morotola salespeople but very little help.
Only when Intel started wiping the floor with Morotola due to the IBM PC did
Motorola see the light.  

|     //	Randell Jesup			      Lunge Software Development


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