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Hi Wrong answer: it is too damned bad that IBM picked the most crippled mpu out there to base their Personal Computer on instead of the 1802 or at least the 6800. Today's desktop computer would almost certainly be a generation further ahead of where it is today. In other words, like an Amiga. Seriously, the only reason IBM did that was probably due to business alliances and such things, it could not possibly have been because their very capable and intelligent engineering staff did not know which mpu chips were superior. To prove the point, NASA and a large number of prime contractors for the military put the 1802 into sattelites, F15 fighters, the Jupiter probe, AMSAT (I think that was what the ARRL called their first sattelite relay) and plenty of other cutting edge projects. Just as it is today, superior technology took back seat to price and company politics and the consumer has paid a heavy price by being saddled with 640K Dos and Windows3.x and now Win95, not to mention Microsoft itself. Sad. alternate: jonest@amigat.com I never met a man I didn't like…Will Rogers