richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (11/24/87)
In article <1818@epiwrl.EPI.COM> parker@epiwrl.EPI.COM (Alan Parker) writes: >In article <2530@calmasd.GE.COM> jnp@calmasd.GE.COM (John Pantone) writes: >>(Tom Hoff) writes: >>When the IBM PC was being designed the Intel 8088/6 was already available in >>trial quantities - it was available in production quantities before the PC >>hit the streets. Motorola's 68000 wasn't yet that far along at the time - >>so it never was really a candidate. >> >Is that right? I'm pretty sure that my lab had some Sun workstations >(first model) before IBM PCs hit the street. I could be wrong. I don't know about Sun's, but a company I worked for in the 81-82 timeframe chose an 8086 over a 68000 because the former had support chips like Multibus arbiter chips. Availability of ther *cpu* was never an issue however. -- Richard J. Sexton INTERNET: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!richard "It's too dark to put the keys in my ignition..."