From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 20 01:08:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA13806 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 01:08:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA13717 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 01:08:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hans@news.IAEhv.nl) Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 18735 on Wed, 20 May 1998 08:07:32 GMT; id IAA18735 efrom: hans; eto: UNKNOWN Received: by truk.brandinnovators.com (8.8.7/BI96070101) for id JAA07297; Wed, 20 May 1998 09:46:10 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199805200746.JAA07297@truk.brandinnovators.com> From: hans@brandinnovators.com (Hans Zuidam) Subject: Re: Original PC (was: talk (fwd)) In-Reply-To: <19980520160442.U20476@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "May 20, 98 04:04:42 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 09:46:10 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Greg Lehey wrote: > > I think the reason they went with Intel instead of Motorola was > > Intel told them the chip was ready, and Motorola told them 6 > > months. Intel lied and shipped late. Motorola shipped when they said > > they would but by that time they had missed their window. Another reason was probably that Intel (?) had a 8080/Z80 to 8088 translator making it much easier to get a lot of CP/M applications converted to the new machine quickly. Hans -- H. Zuidam E-Mail: hans@brandinnovators.com Brand Innovators B.V. P-Mail: P.O. Box 1377 de Pinckart 54 5602 BJ Eindhoven, The Netherlands 5674 CC Nuenen Tel. +31 40 2631134, Fax. +31 40 2831138 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message