14 Jun
2026
14 Jun
'26
10:56 a.m.
On Sun, 14 Jun 2026, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
Intel's x86 technology as in the 8086 came into
existence for the
microcomputer-user at this time back in June 1978. It was a response to
Motorola's and Zilog's move to 16-bit processing. Still in use today...the
basic tech so to speak. Can it be unseated by RISC(Apple and such) and
Nvidia?
Intel 8086 was 1978
Zilog Z8000 was march 1979
Motorola 68000 was September 1979
The Motorola 68000 was the best 16 bit microprocessor.
But, the Intel 8086 was earlier. So, "a response to Motorola's and
Zilog's move to 16-bit processing" seems a little far-fetched, unless we
could also credit Intel with development of time travel - Did John Titor
go back and help them :-?
'course there can also be "creative" definitions of "16 bit
processing",
because it is not unambiguously defined.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com