New subject: 6502 and beyond .. (was Re: Nuke Redmond!)

16 Jan 2001

...
 > On the other hand, who knowsif history had been
different, perhaps
> Apple and Microsoft would have gone away, Linux and other free UNICEs
> would never have come into existence, and most of us would now be
> using MP/M-IX with a GUI, many security features and long upper-case
> filenames, using 64-bit 300MHz CPUs descended from the Z80. 

I.  The Pentium is related to the z80 by way of the 8088 based on the
8080!

II. Before DOS there were people developing OSs, Flex, Unix,  OS/9,
NS*dos,
   And an assortment of CP/M clones.

III.  There were 16 bit decendants of 6502, they had potential.

Allison