Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site terak.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!noao!terak!doug From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: demise of 8086 family? Message-ID: <622@terak.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 12:09:58 EDT Article-I.D.: terak.622 Posted: Wed Jun 26 12:09:58 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 02:38:56 EDT References: <120@SCINEWS.UUCP> <11271@brl-tgr.ARPA> <1488@watdcsu.UUCP> Organization: Terak Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Lines: 13 > Also, you must consider the timeframe. When I bought my PC three years > ago (it had been out for about 8 months) it was the most advanced > *commercial* machine available. A fine example of the power of brand names. At that time, there was a 68000-based micro available from the company that (at that time) had sold more computers than all of the other computer manufacturers put together. But no self-respecting businessman is going to put his career on the line and recommend that his company buy a *Radio Shack* computer! -- Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{ihnp4,seismo,decvax}!noao!terak!doug ^^^^^--- soon to be CalComp