At 09:51 PM 10/7/98 -0700, you wrote: I will admit up front that I don't know everything, and I am not an EE (dropped out of community college) but it seems to me that Intel hadn't won anything until ~81 when IBM came out with their PC. Until then, the Z80 and 6502 were as dominant (if not more so) than the 8080/8085? In fact, I'll go so far as to suggest that perhaps if IBM had gone with, say, the z8000, Intel would not be anywhere near as big as it is? It seems to me that what really got the "cheap computer revolution" going was the Z80 (CP/M, TRS-80, etc.) and the 6502 (Atari, Commodore, Apple II). Because no matter what the tech-heads are doing in their garages, nothing is a revolution until you can buy it at Sears. There is a similar situation with digital recording -- it's been around and available for eons, but mostly was only available to those with lots of $$$ (big studios/record companies) or tech-heads. Now, with the soundblaster/CD-R combo and some software (which, if it isn't available as shareware, I would be extremely surprised!) anyone can cut a full-digital (DDD) CD at home. --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/