The 8086 architecture was already obsolete in 1965 let alone in 1978. IBM going with the 8088 was a terrible technology decision. So in the end little time difference from the original Moto guaranteed delivery dates. Whereas Intel as usual promised immediate delivery of the 8088 in quantity and as usual were both late and slow in ramping up volume delivery.
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Unlike the 8086/88 support chips which were a typical mess.īut despite all that the final decider was that Motorola were honest in giving ramp up times for delivery of the 68000 in 100K quantities. Even though the Motorola support chips were clean and well behaved. The lead motherboard designer had a working motherboard for another project based on the 8085 so was able to knock about 8 to 12 weeks of the schedule it would take to design a 68000 motherboard from scratch. The original hardware spec was for the vastly superior 68000/68008 from Motorola. What if IBM had demanded that Microsoft give them a half Estridge made the 8088 v 68000 decision for the 5150 based purely for time schedule reasons. It involves the owner of the then-dominant OS, CP/M, being on a sailboat out of reach and IBM reps then calling a young Bill Gates, who had no OS but knew someone who did (for $50,000). The story of how Microsoft got the contract to develop the OS is legendary. And the answer to that was “so can a metal box”.
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When Tandy came out with the TRS-80, the joke was “what do you do with it? And the answer was “keep recipes”. It was IBM who really made it respectable for businesses.
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I have in the last few months pondered what would our relationship with Communist China be today had Nixon and Kissinger not pushed for trade? Would a desperate China have caused a nuclear war (they got The Bomb in 1966), or would they even be communist today?įor a few years nobody could see the purpose of a personal PC. I should have recorded their talks…Īs far as bad business decisions, who can say what what would have happened had Busicom retained the rights? Would they have seen – or acted on – the the same opportunities? It is easy to think of alternative scenarios in a linier fashion, and that things would have turned out the same way as they did. In fact I think Apple’s co-founders were in the Homebrew club in San Jose.Īnyway among the monthly speakers coming to our venue were Bill Gates and Andy Grove of Intel.
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In those days they were full of microprocessor enthusiasts. Back in the 80s, we had the 2nd largest computer club in the country, after Boston.