IBM 5150 maximum memory?

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Friday 25 April 2008 20:04, Fred Cisin wrote:
> > (I'm not sure that CPU cost came into it - was a 68k really so much more
> > than an 8088 that it would have mattered on a machine costing close on
> > $2k?)
>
> I think that the extra cost would be worth it, but IBM was cutting LOTS of
> corners.  If the 8088 hadn't been available, I think that they would have
> been more likely to go Z80 than 8086!

Now _that_ would have been something...!

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