6 Oct
1998
6 Oct
'98
12:36 p.m.
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
::It was Intel's competitors - notably Motorola and especially MOS
::Technology - who were responsible for driving microprocessor CPU costs
::to the hundred-dollar-level and below. That's when times really began
::a-changin'.
I agree with this. The 6502 architecture and the 6800/68000 series did more
to advance low-cost computing than anything Intel did. Intel seemed perfectly
satisfied to stay in the high-end market until relatively recently.
That's high-_price_, not high-_end_.
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