Jerry Feldman said: >When the PC was designed, there was a rather small market. You had the >Apple II with 16K, and a few other 8080, z80, m6800, or 6502. The PC used >the 8088 (which is the 8 bit version of the newer 8086 line. Coming from 8 >bits to 16 bits was a big move.
There was also the m68000 (unless you meant the 68000 when you wrote 6800 above). The Macintoshes started on them (with 128k of RAM!). Sun, Apollo, HP, and others based thier workstations on them. There's some rumors that IBM considered it for the PC but rejected it because Motorola was the only source. . \ -- ------- Tom Buskey _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
