28 Jun
2016
28 Jun
'16
8:49 a.m.
On 2016-Jun-27 16:28:14 -0500, Ronald Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
Hard to believe the 8086 chip was “optimized” for
anything. The instruction set was designed for programming terminals.
I think "designed" is being generous. The closest to "designed" would
have been for a calculation but then the 4004 grew warts and the warts grew warts.
The iapx32 was designed to run higher level languages
(Ada)
That was the iapx432. No relationship to the x86.
And, whilst we're dealing with what-if's, what if the M68K had taken off,
rather than the 8086. IBM had a M68K box in the same timeframe as the PC.
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Peter Jeremy