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Article #21821Re: IBM PC prehistory
From: Richard Crisp
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1989 02:28
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1989 02:28
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The story I heard was that the 68K was under serious consideration. MOTO was unwilling to commit the volumes that IBM wanted (the 68k was just getting the bugs out and was starting to build a little volume, the 68010 was in design). The 8086/8088 was simply more mature by about 6months to 1year. BTW, the 68010 was designed to some extent to be used in the XT/370 machine that you may be familiar with. There was a more radically modified version of the 68K that was also used in that box. I seem to remember the 68010 being called the "Cascadilla Minor" with the more radically modified version (never sold to anyone but IBM) being called the "Cascadilla Major". Maybe someone else that worked at MOTO at that time remembers more details. -- Just the facts Ma'am
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!max!crisp From: crisp@mips.COM (Richard Crisp) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: IBM PC prehistory Message-ID: <33947@mips.mips.COM> Date: 24 Dec 89 02:28:10 GMT References: <21559@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <76700097@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@mips.COM Reply-To: crisp@mips.COM (Richard Crisp) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 13