History of Computing exam question

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Mon Dec 3 01:21:22 2001

Christopher Smith wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) [mailto:cisin_at_xenosoft.com]
>
> > Leaving Hitler out of a world history would be like leaving
> > IBM PC (5150)
> > out of a list of significant computers.
>
> I took the question a different way. As I interpreted it, the computers
> were supposed to be "significant" in terms of design. The IBM PC wasn't.
> It was pretty much all re-hash of something else.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris

Well when I first saw a PC ( clone that is ) , I thought
"WOW A real keyboard, good display ( Upper / Lower Case )
and dual floppies all in one box". 512K ram max sounded
like a lot of memory too. Compared to the 8 bit toy market
at the time Z80's,C64's,Coco's that was a lot of power.
It was the small 16 bit addressing that killed the 8 bitters.

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