Dave McGuire wrote:
It's only really the x86 family that sucks, IMO.
Well, it didn't suck so
much in 1978, it just needed to die by, say, 1980 or so.
But looking now at history, Intel did not have a working 16/32 bit
design at that time. That x86 was just a hack that worked well with
the blessing of IBM. It seems only Motorola thought of 'home' computing
more with 6809. Everything larger seems to have been designed to replace
the mini-computer/main-frame market.
-Dave
Ben.