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- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Motorola couldn't make enough 68000's
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 04:27:42 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.042742.28238@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <1992Dec22.234828.0203999@locus.com> <28DEC199212022792@moose.cccs.umn.edu> <1hnqn1INN5le@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <1hnqn1INN5le@tamsun.tamu.edu> bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs) writes:
- >
- > I hope you mean by this that IBM decided to go with Intel 8088 and not
- > Motorola 68000 chips. If we are given an 80x8x, we are limited to
- > segmented architecture (in real mode).
- >
- > From my understanding, IBM did not think much of the PC at first and
- > went for the absolute cheapest chips consistent with typical IBM
- > reliability requirements (I've not heard of reliability complaints
- > from any IBM machine--they may not have pushed the state of the art,
- > but they are pretty reliable.)
- >
- > In fact, if IBM would have gone with Motorola, I don't think MS would
- > exist today.
-
- I hate to re-hash arguments that have occurred over the years in other
- newsgroups.....but my understanding is that IBM went with the Intel 8088
- because Motorola - at that time - simply could not produce the 68000 chips in
- the quantities that IBM required them.
-
- Steve
-
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