Corrections to trivia

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Tue Oct 6 19:36:59 1998

Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>
> ::It was Intel's competitors - notably Motorola and especially MOS
> ::Technology - who were responsible for driving microprocessor CPU costs
> ::to the hundred-dollar-level and below. That's when times really began
> ::a-changin'.
>
> I agree with this. The 6502 architecture and the 6800/68000 series did more
> to advance low-cost computing than anything Intel did. Intel seemed perfectly
> satisfied to stay in the high-end market until relatively recently.

That's high-_price_, not high-_end_.
-- 
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram_at_cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any
firearms with me.  I said "Well, what do you need?"  --  Steven Wright
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