Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 09:46:10 +0200 (CEST) From: hans@brandinnovators.com (Hans Zuidam) To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Original PC (was: talk (fwd)) Message-ID: <199805200746.JAA07297@truk.brandinnovators.com> In-Reply-To: <19980520160442.U20476@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "May 20, 98 04:04:42 pm"
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> 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
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