Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!amdahl!drivax!socha
From: socha@drivax.UUCP (Henri J. Socha (7-x6628))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Microprocessors
Message-ID: <2804@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 87 03:06:57 GMT
References: <2175@tekig5.TEK.COM> <1026@hp-sdd.HP.COM> <2530@calmasd.GE.COM> <1818@epiwrl.EPI.COM> <1921@chinet.UUCP> <2769@drivax.UUCP> <240@esquire.UUCP>
Reply-To: socha@drivax.UUCP (Henri J. Socha (7-x6628))
Organization: Digital Research, Monterey, CA
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Keywords: Intel, Motorola

In article <240@esquire.UUCP> sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
>In article <2769@drivax.UUCP> socha@drivax.UUCP (Henri J. Socha (7-x6628)) writes:
>>OK, there are at least 3 Motorolans on the net in the MAC group
>>that I know of who were at Motorola when IBM came around asking about
>>the future IBM-PC.  They would know the timing.

>Do we even know for sure that IBM ever knocked on Motorola's door?  
	YES!  (but I didn't say it :-)

>The rest, I'm sad to say, is history.  The very things we all flame Intel for
>(tortured, segmented architecture, n-year backward compatibility, "virtual
>8086" modes, etc.) are part of what has made them (and IBM) so successful.
>Sort of ironic, huh?

	TRIVIA TIME!

Did you know that the Intel 80386 architecture based on the 286, 186, 8086,
8080 was originally based on the Intel 8008.
This machine was architected basically over a weekend in Maryland for a
company in San Antonio Texas!  And, put in silicon by Intel because the company
was their #1 RAM (shift register that is!) purchaser at the time.
It was 1 year late and then not used by that company. They had an MSI version
working.  It was called the Datapoint 2200.  Introduced in '71 I think.

The best part:  The machine was to be an intelligent (programmable) terminal
emulator (glass TTY). It could be real simple so, why do the STACK ORIENTED
Architecture (a real computer) which was designed at the same time.
Think of it, if that one was chosen, you'd be programming in RPN!  :-)
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UUCP:...!amdahl!drivax!socha                                      WAT Iron'75
"Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler."  A. Einstein