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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: History of PCs (also kind of long)
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Date: 1 Aug 88 22:35:55 GMT
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In article <1238@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes:
>
>[...]  Jobs has said that when he was looking for a chip, the 6809
>was really expensive, and the 6502 was really cheap.  I remember something
>about Motorola saying (in a memo) that the 6502 was something cheap
>to fill in the gap between the 6809 and the bottom of the chip market.
>Check old issues of Byte, etc, and compare the prices of 6809s and 6502s.

I'm amazed that a big corporation would do something with a few-buck part
to make life easier for the consumer; alas, the days of personality in
personal computing are almost gone.  Kudos and Huzza to Motorola.

>Motorola Skates on Intel's Head!

Just how many motorolae can skate on the head of an intel?

				--Blair
				  "All of them."