3 Dec
2001
3 Dec
'01
2:17 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) [mailto:cisin@xenosoft.com]
Leaving Hitler out of a world history would be like
leaving
IBM PC (5150)
out of a list of significant computers.
I took the question a different way. As I interpreted it, the computers
were supposed to be "significant" in terms of design. The IBM PC wasn't.
It was pretty much all re-hash of something else.
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
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2 Dec
2 Dec
5:21 p.m.
Christopher Smith wrote:
Well when I first saw a PC ( clone that is ) , I thought
"WOW A real keyboard, good display ( Upper / Lower Case )
and dual floppies all in one box". 512K ram max sounded
like a lot of memory too. Compared to the 8 bit toy market
at the time Z80's,C64's,Coco's that was a lot of power.
It was the small 16 bit addressing that killed the 8 bitters.
--
Ben Franchuk --- Pre-historic Cpu's --
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) [mailto:cisin@xenosoft.com]
Leaving Hitler out of a world history would be
like leaving
IBM PC (5150)
out of a list of significant computers.
I took the question a different way. As I interpreted it, the computers
were supposed to be "significant" in terms of design. The IBM PC wasn't.
It was pretty much all re-hash of something else.
Regards,
Chris
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