Nice PC-museum..

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu May 17 08:27:27 CDT 2007


Chuck Guzis wrote:
>> The brain dead morons who were left at Intel then produced the 8085, and 
>> ultimately inflicted the mind-bogglingly prehistoric x86 architecture on an 
>> unsuspecting world.... :-(
>>
>> With the exception of the 8080 and i960, I firmly believe that Intel have 
>> done more to hold back the development of the microprocessor than anyone 
>> else!
> 
> You forgot the 432, which was very revolutionary in design and 
> contemporaneous with the 8086.  Which shows you how far dramatic 
> innovation will get you.

And the i860 and the i8051.

Peace...  Sridhar


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