#CAOS
Steve,
so that's the same reason why PC users have had to put up with Intel's 8088 CPU
(Common Processing Urror) and Microsofts's QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating
System), later re-christened MS-DOS – because IBM had a deadline, no CPU and no
operating system. The only operating system for a 16bit CPU was QDOS (actually
a rip-off of CPM) which was available only for Intel's CPU. Motorola had their
CPU ready but no OS yet, so IBM had to go for the Intel/MS-DOS combination…
// Christian "ELP" Busse
\X/ near Frankfurt, Germany