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Gee, I guess being horse compatible won.  Say, isn't that how Microsoft won
as well?

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Larry Barello
www.barello.net


| -----Original Message-----
| From: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
| Of David Kelly
| Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:41 PM
| To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
| Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] eclipse and avr-gcc?
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| 
| On Oct 20, 2005, at 8:22 PM, stevech wrote:
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| > I think it's commonly accepted that IBM went with the Intel CPU for
| > market
| > timing reasons - to hit the Christmas market window. The 8080 and
| > DOS were
| > there but Moto was 6 months behind.
| 
| Had IBM invented the automobile the controls would have been horse-
| compatible. Same applies to desktop computers. CP/M, 8080, and Z-80
| were already established. IBM didn't have the imagination to do
| anything different, just bigger. So it was to be 8088. People forget
| that the IBM-PC originally shipped with 4 OS choices. IBM wanted to
| be everything to everyone. And remain horse-compatible.