Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!munnari!otc!metro!ipso!stcns3!stca77!peter From: peter@stca77.stc.oz (Peter Jeremy) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: History of PCs (also kind of long) Message-ID: <233@stca77.stc.oz> Date: 16 Aug 88 23:02:28 GMT References: <1238@flatline.UUCP> <3247@edm.UUCP> <720@mcrware.UUCP> Reply-To: peter%stca77@stcns3.stc.oz (Peter Jeremy) Organization: Alcatel-STC, Alexandria, AUSTRALIA Lines: 17 In article <720@mcrware.UUCP> jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) writes: >The designers of the 6809 had a three-part article in Jan-Mar 1979 BYTE (the >first and damned near the last time that BYTE ever mentioned the 6809, by the >way); Pity that, that 6809 looked like a great processor. It just didn't have enough new goodies to make up for its lack of backward compatibility with anything. > [ stuff about early 6809 machines deleted ] Intel "liked" the 6809 - they used it as their standard against which to compare the 8088. And funnily enough Intel found that a 5MHz 8088 would outperform a 2MHz 6809 :-). Rather a case of comparing apples and oranges. -- Peter Jeremy (VK2PJ) peter%stca77@stcns3.stc.oz Alcatel-STC Australia ...!munnari!stcns3.stc.oz!stca77!peter 41 Mandible St peter%stca77@stcns3.stc.oz@uunet.UU.NET ALEXANDRIA NSW 2015