Re: Past Blast - "Wonder Woman 1984" - Corp Guy Using PET

On Sun, 06 Apr 2025 17:35:22 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-04-06, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
 

   Then the wonderful 68000s ... but they could never make enough, fast
   enough, cheap enough ......

 
Or soon enough.  Which once again proved that it's better to be first
than to be best.
 
"It's a good thing the iAPX 432 never caught on. Otherwise some truly
horrible Intel architecture might have taken over the world."

But, but, that was the REAL processor. The 8086 was just a 8080 with
BandAids until Intel could get the problems sorted.