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- From: tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: If things had been different... (was: FCC etc)
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 01:33:38 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95
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- In article <24744@galaxy.ucr.edu> insom@galaxy.ucr.edu (Chris Ulrich) writes:
- >
- > Isnt everyone missing the boat with the "Why didnt IBM use the 68k and
- >not the (blech) 8088?" argument? After all, to my knowledge, the 68k
- >did not exist in 1981, which is when the PC came out (it might have been
-
- It existed. In 1982, I built a little general purpose 68k system in the
- Microprocessor Lab class at Caltech, and that was around March of 1982.
- A friend of mine took the class a year earlier, and also built a 68k
- system, so they were around in early 1981.
-
- --Tim Smith
-