Re: FSF won't help Apple (Re: Newsgroups closed)

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From: Doug DeJulio
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1991 13:48

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In article <1991Aug1.145714@fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com> mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com writes:
> Sure, the PC could have had a 68000 (I wish it had myself, in fact),
> but a look at the relative cost of (8088+8-bit peripherals) vs.
> (68000+16-bit peripherals) should shed some light on another, less
> conspiratorial, basis for the hardware choice.

They could have used the 68008, the little-used little-known 8-bit
version of the 68000.  They used an 8-bit version of a 16-bit chip
anyway...

-- 
Doug DeJulio
ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (NeXT mail)
dd26+@andrew.cmu.edu (AMS/ATK mail)

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From: ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FSF won't help Apple (Re: Newsgroups closed)
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Date: 2 Aug 91 13:48:01 GMT
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