Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 10:43:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Original PC (was: talk (fwd)) Message-ID: <199805200843.KAA20151@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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In list.freebsd-hackers Greg Lehey wrote: > Did it really take IBM so long to develop the PC? My recollection was > that it was a sort of half-hearted effort after the devastating > success of the 5100. In any case, the obvious reason for the choice > of processor was the software available--CP/M 86 and 86-DOS for the > 8088, nothing for the 68K. Ok, that sounds reasonable. On the other hand, I guess that a team of programmers would have been able to port the old 86-DOS to 68k in a few weeks. > On top of that, the 8088 was cheaper > because it had 8 bit memory (remember that most chips in those days > were single bit). There was also an 68000-8 with external 8 bit bus. > I don't think they had the slightest concern about > attacking their mainframe machines, which were as fast as they needed > to be (quite literally). Agreed. :-) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18-61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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