[rescue] Some days ....
Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.
rescue at hawkmountain.net
Sun Jun 8 15:17:52 CDT 2003
>From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
>To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>
>Dave McGuire wrote:
>
>> I think they did a very good job for a cheap "throwaway" design done
>> by junior engineers. The production cost of the PC was almost nothing;
>> there are exactly *zero* components on the original PC motherboard
>> design that were more than a few dollars apiece.
>
>That's why it had an 8088. IBM considered a 68000 for it and Motorola wanted
>$10 each.
Think of where the PC architecture would be today if the 68K had been the
proc !!! we'd be seeing mega high speed Motorola CISC chips today...
(with better IRQ/DMA/etc designs).
-- Curt
>
>Geoff.
>
>
>--
>Geoffrey S. Mendelson gsm at mendelson.com 972-54-608-069
>Do sysadmins count networked sheep?
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