From: lproven at gmail.com> > Er. I found this difficult to follow...> > On 09/09/2007, dwight elvey <dkelvey at hotmail.com> wrote:> > > I had a chance to ask Faggin why he did finish the math coprocessor> > You mean, "didn't"?> > > for the Z8000's. He stated that the handwriting was quite clear.> > (Z8000s. No apostrophes on plurals. Not even on numbers. None, ever.)> > > The 8086 would soon dominate. I wasn't worth the effort to get the> > "It wasn't"?> > > math coprocessor working.> > Other than the addressing, the Z8000 had a nice register arangement.> > ("arrangement")> > > It was much closer to a RISC than the 8086 ever was.> > > I still have a couple of NA2000 series boards. This was another National> > start and drop.> > These has the 800 processor as dies on a PC board with other components.> > ("These have".)> > I don't meant to nitpick - the corrections in parentheses did not> impede my comprehension. The ones outside them, though, *did*. I> suggest taking just a few more seconds over a post?>