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Old 05-12-2023, 07:50 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
The original PC was a sort of skunks-work out of a catalogue, hence the crippled 8088 (Neither 8088 or 8086 was a real 16 bit CPU, no flat address space).
The cheap CPUs allowed PCs to put more beef in the system. The attempt to use expensive Motorola chips in systems like Macs or Amigas led to the need to supply cheap, low-power hardware (like sub-VGA B/W monitors and 128k of memory). No wonder those crippled systems fail.
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