to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 11:09:35AM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote:
>> Another rumor I read was that IBM, when developing the first IBM PC >> in 1980, opted to use the 8086/8088 CPU instead of the also availble >> M68k CPU because the Intel one was less powerful so it would not be >> in competition with the mainframes the PC was supposed to interface >> with primarily. > Too lazy to research now, but it sounds credible, yes. >> If this rumor is true and IBM had acted differently, the PC ecosystem >> today would also look quite differently. > Or the Z8000. Absolutely. 8086 was, architecturally, the worst possible > choice at that time. Having had a 68k would have been awesome. No stupid memory segmentation, 32bit instructions and internal address size, 24bit external address size. Imagine a PC with 4GB adressable memory space in 1980. S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
