25 Apr
2008
25 Apr
'08
6:52 p.m.
On Friday 25 April 2008 20:04, Fred Cisin wrote:
Now _that_ would have been something...!
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
(I'm not
sure that CPU cost came into it - was a 68k really so much more
than an 8088 that it would have mattered on a machine costing close on
$2k?)
I think that the extra cost would be worth it, but IBM was cutting LOTS of
corners. If the 8088 hadn't been available, I think that they would have
been more likely to go Z80 than 8086!