Re: When will the 8051 and othe 8-bits go away?




steven wrote:

>I think Motorola made the right decision to design the 68000 from scratch,
>and avoid any possible legacy problems. It wasn't because of this decision
>that the 68000 broke through, it was a lack of platform. If IBM would have
>chosen otherwise, both Intel and Motorola would look very different today.

This assumes that a non-8088 design would have found success. There
were a bunch that didn't, so maybe the IBM PC without the 8088 would
have been just as sucessful as the IBM System/23 Datamaster or the
DEC Rainbow.

>If there were product managers with some strategic insight, they'd
>know that the life cycle of the 8088 design would be much shorter
>than a similar design based on the 68000.

Why should they care about that? They were prducing a line of
computers with old models going obsolete and news computers
replacing them:

Model 5100... Normal, lasted about a year then was replaced.
Model 5110... Normal, lasted about a year then was replaced.
Model 5120... Normal, lasted about a year then was replaced.
Model 5150... BLAM! design decisions still haunting us in 2005!

Who could have predicted such a thing?


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