On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Martin Vermeer wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:53:55PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> > > "IBM's decision to choose the Intel 80x86 processor over
> > > the Motorola 680x0 probably set the personal computer
> > > industry back 10 years."
> > > - Brian Marsden
> >
> > That's right! Intel's braindead processor family... rant rant rant
>
> (off topic) Yeah! I loved programming the 6809 (of which the 68xxx is a
> descendant). True multitasking and most of the Unix goodies in 64kB
> of RAM (that's KILObytes :-). Those were the days.
You too! 6809's ruled! os/9 ruled!
Then came Dynamic Address Translation chips and 512kB of RAM!
Whoa, too much!
My old Tandy CoCo3 hit 183 Drystones at 1.8MHz! (Yeah, I know it's weird
I can still remember those numbers -- sign of a sick mind? or maybe a
sharp one?)
Allan. (ARRae)
Delving deeper into OT territory.
P.S. Have you heard that AMD has demonstrated Dual and Quad SMP Athlon
machines in the last week or so. Same sick Intel architecture though --
gotta get me a Power4 or perhaps two ;-) Then again I should get some
work done on my single chip multiprocessor ideas.
