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From: conrad@tlc.tlc.com (Conrad Dost)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IBM PC prehistory
Message-ID: <934@tlc.tlc.com>
Date: 4 Jan 90 01:33:33 GMT
Reply-To: conrad@tlc.UUCP (Conrad Dost)
Organization: Total Logic Corp., San Jose, Ca.
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Gordon Letwin writes :

> Although I'm not an authority on the subject, I'm pretty sure that the
> reason IBM used the 8088 is ...

Just as important was the large number of support chips and ease of porting Z80
assemply code (CP/M programs) to the 8086 architecture.
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