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Offline ElPolloDiabl

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Re: What's so bad about Intel 8086 in technical terms?
« on: June 12, 2014, 10:10:41 PM »
8086: an ugly machine
RISC CPU: A streamlined work of art

Those are the type of comments people made about them.
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Re: What's so bad about Intel 8086 in technical terms?
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2014, 09:35:39 AM »
IBM PC had upgrade cards from the beginning.
Theres one reason why IBM PC beat Amiga... Mass produced generic add on cards.
We had to wait for any large production of cards.
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Re: What's so bad about Intel 8086 in technical terms?
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2014, 12:36:11 PM »
No. we will be running Amiga OS on old PowerPC servers in ten years time. lol

Personally the lack of software available on MorphOS and OS4 is a big turn off. 68k Amiga has just enough to keep me going.
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Re: What's so bad about Intel 8086 in technical terms?
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2014, 11:08:18 AM »
At the time would it have been worth continuing the 68k line? Was the mhz race a factor in dropping it? Going to PowerPC was meant to make a common architecture.

Was it the existing software that held back the 68k?
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