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Article #1351Re: Why IBM used 8088 (Was something about Alpha linux/gnu/....)
From: Gerd Truschinski
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:51
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:51
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In article <1g53rgINNcd7@roche.csl.sri.com>, gilham@csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham) writes: |> |> The way I understand it, IBM used the 8088 because Intel lowered the |> price very heavily (they were sampling 8088s for $5), and because |> there was a 8080-to-8086 assembly language translator available. They |> were able to keep the component price down and to get a fair amount of |> software running on the new box right away. |> |> Strictly marketing -- in other words, strictly driven by what IBM |> thought people would buy. Like it or not, IBM was right. |> Sometime ago there was an articel in the 'BYTE' about the first IBM-PC. The hardware developer said, that they have taken the 8088 because they had just finished a 8085 project and know this architecture very well. /gT/ |> -Fred
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!ceres.fokus.gmd.de!gmdtub!prosun!gt From: gt@prosun.first.gmd.de (Gerd Truschinski) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Why IBM used 8088 (Was something about Alpha linux/gnu/....) Message-ID: <2778@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> Date: 11 Dec 92 17:51:26 GMT References: <id.ACDV.6RG@ferranti.com> <1992Nov29.023714.16318@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1g53rgINNcd7@roche.csl.sri.com> Sender: news@bigfoot.first.gmd.de Organization: GMD Berlin (FIRST) Lines: 18