brian@digi-g.UUCP (Merlyn Leroy) (04/04/85)
<Santa Claus is computer literate> In article <5355@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: >...The new x86 chips are 8086 compatible, the 8086 had a lot of 8080 >compatibility, the 8080 was source-compatible with the 8008, and the 8008 >was pretty much an 8-bit 4004. Isn't it thrilling to know that you're >programming a machine descended from a souped-up calculator? With such maaavelous backward compatability, it only confirms my opinion: the 80*86 family is the most backward cpu set I've ever seen... Merlyn Leroy