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From: dennisg@kgw2.uucp.WEC.COM (Dennis Glatting)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Japanese Josephson breakthrough?  Implications?
Summary: why
Message-ID: <332@kgw2.uucp.WEC.COM>
Date: 27 Dec 89 19:24:42 GMT
References: <1546@aber-cs.UUCP>
Organization: Xetron Corp, Cincinnati Ohio
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In article <1546@aber-cs.UUCP>, pcg@aber-cs.UUCP (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
> 
> In case you have not understood, I liked the Z8000 a lot. If only IBM had
> chosen it instead of the 8088/8086... If only Zilog had managed to do an MMU
> and restartable instructions soon enough...
> -- 
why didn't the Z8000 catch on?
wasn't it another segmented arch?

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 dennisg@kgw2.UUCP.WEC.COM  | Dennis P. Glatting
 ..!uunet!tron!kgw2!dennisg |
   What!  You want that subroutine to produce the
   same results twice?  This is a joke right?