Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:11:07 07/07/03
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On July 06, 2003 at 19:49:35, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On July 06, 2003 at 17:50:21, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On July 06, 2003 at 17:31:29, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >> >>>On July 06, 2003 at 09:07:24, Bo Persson wrote: >>> >>>>The argument was about Tom insisting that the 8080 couldn't have influenced the >>>>x86 instruction set, because its name didn't end in 86. It's not all in the >>>>name! >>> >>>No, no, no, no, no. Of COURSE the 8080 influenced the x86 instruction set. >>> >>>I'm just saying that the 8080 is not an x86. >>> >>>This is like saying the BMW 2002 was the first BMW 3-series. The BMW 2002 was >>>the predecessor to the 3-series, it influenced the design of the 3-series, it >>>was similar to the first 3-series in many ways, but it WAS NOT A 3-SERIES >>>because its model number DID NOT START WITH 3. >>> >>>Bob is hiding behind linguistic sloppyness to avoid admitting that he was wrong. >> >>Apart from quoting 80s truth. >> >>Where he is on Alzheimer drugs with respect to processors, in parallel search > >Well, the funny thing is that all of the stuff we've been talking about happened >around 1980, so you'd think he'd know more about it than I do. I mean, he was >actively using these computers, and I was 2 years old at the time. > >Props to my embedded systems class... I bet they'll still be using 8088s 10 >years from now. > >-Tom I was using them. My electronic chess board still works with both the z80 and 8086 boards. While I haven't burned EPROMs in quite a number of years (for these two boards) the code ran on both as I said. Your logic about 8080 not ending in 86 is silly. My pentium IV doesn't end in "86" either so I suppose it is not "part of the family either". The "numbers" are irrelevant. Intel could have named the 80186 the 31264 and it would _still_ have been a successor to the 8086 with architectural compatibility. Vincent's ramblings don't need a comment, of course. When he was born he was born without any sort of ECC memory, so things are so flawed and corrupted in his head there is nothing left to make any sense of at all.
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