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From: john@polo.demon.co.uk (John Winters)
Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada?
Date: 1997/04/16
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In article <3354C4D5.22ED@lmtas.lmco.com>,
Byron  <Byron.B.Kauffman@lmtas.lmco.com> wrote:
>Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>> 
>snip..
>> 
>> Say, didn't you just troll with this bit of nonsense, referring to the
>> IBM PC:
>> 
>> ->   Perhaps you knew of a better micro-processor for systems that could
>> ->   fit on the average desktop? It just so happens that the 8086 was
>> ->   state of the art back then.
>> 
>> Can you say, MC68000?
>
>I believe you've got one too many zeros - it was the MC6800.

That depends on what "it" is.  The MC6800 was an MC6800 and the MC68000
was (and is?) an MC68000.  Oh, if only IBM had used the 68000 for their
PC.  (The MC68000 was introduced in 1979.)

John

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John Winters.  Wallingford, Oxon, England.