7 Aug
2006
7 Aug
'06
10:03 a.m.
On 8/7/2006 at 12:37 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Sometimes I wonder how things might have been different
if that chip
family had been picked instead of the intel crap for the original "PC" and
had
gone on from there.
I recall that before the IBM PC was released, there was a solid camp of
speculators thinking that the PC was going to be 68K-based. After all, IBM
had just released its lab computer--and it was 68K based.
I remember the sense of letdown when the machine debuted.
Cheers,
Chuck