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[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:

> > > >
> > > > >Actually POWER evolved from the chip that was used in the DisplayWriter.
> > > >
> > > > What about the 801?
> > >
> > > Since when did POWER evolve from the 8086?
> >
> > The 801 does not owe extensive heritage to the 8086 (it was an
> > experimental ECL minicomputer architecture).  It draws more extensively on
> > the 709 and, in spirit, the CDC 6600 (then again, so does everything
> > RISC).
>
> I wasn't talking about the 801, someone mention the displaywriter machine.
> And such system was 8086 based, so I did not understand what did the 8086
> have to do with the POWER.

I thought that was the DisplayWriter II.

Peace...  Sridhar

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