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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
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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.
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