[rescue] A bit of Fun

[Eric Dittman]

> I do wonder if people really think the x86 architecture was such sh!t at
> the point of initial deployment. I'm not talking about Pentium 4-HT. I'm
> talking 8086. How much better could it have handled 640KB and a 5 megabyte
> hard drive?

I remember at the time that the 8086 design wasn't
that great, considering some of the other CPUs that
were available at the time.

I also though the whole original IBM PC was a
really screwed-up design, considering what other
companies had available.
-- 
Eric Dittman
dittman at dittman.net