CAOS
20-Mar-95 10:31:49
Sb: #189581-CAOS
Fm: Gerald Bonnstetter 71172,3141
To: Christian Busse 100121,1360
Christian,
The IBM engineers choose the Intel CPU because they had just finished a project
using the Intel 8085 so they were familiar with interfacing to the Intel IO
chips. They thought they had to get to market fast so they didn't want to take
the extra time to learn about designing with a Motorola or Zilog CPU, either of
which would have been a better CPU IMHO.
Also the original IBM PC's came with 3 OS's including MossyDOS so PC users only
have themselves to blame for MSDOS.
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