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To: Alighieri who wrote (446647)1/11/2009 10:02:42 AM
From: i-node  Respond to of 1575273
 
I'm not sure INTC was a better brand than Motorola at the time.

I believe it is true that IBM considered using its own RISC processor and moved to the 8088 because they implement it faster. It wasn't that IBM went, "Oh, Intel is a great brand, why don't we use IT?"



To: Alighieri who wrote (446647)1/11/2009 12:25:13 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1575273
 
"The brand strikes again."

Not really. If you look at the original design, the designers were familiar with the 8080. Intel had produced a whitepaper detailing how to adapt 8080 peripheral chips to the 8088 and that is what they did. Down to the overly complicated way to demultiplex the bus and the incomplete decoding of I/O space.


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