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Article #73654Re: Re: FSF won't help Apple (Re: Newsgroups closed)
From: Jacob Gore
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 1991 23:28
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 1991 23:28
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/ gnu.misc.discuss / mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Mike Jones) /Aug 1'91/ > 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. What does the width of the CPU external data bus have to do with the width of peripheral buses??? Maybe you can explain... I heard this the first time when working at IBM eight years ago, and I still don't get it. Or is the 3090 really an 8-bit machine, so it can work with EBCDIC terminals? Jacob -- Jacob Gore Jacob@Gore.Com boulder!gore!jacob
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,87dfb568a60f029f X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-08-04 02:17:57 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!csn!nugget.rmNUG.ORG!gore!jacob From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Re: FSF won't help Apple (Re: Newsgroups closed) Message-ID: <970048@gore.com> Date: 3 Aug 91 23:28:44 GMT References: <go2o62w164w@mantis.co.uk> Reply-To: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) Organization: Gore Enterprises Lines: 18