Re: [EVEN MORE OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

[Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>]

tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 11:09:35AM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote:

>> Another rumor I read was that IBM, when developing the first IBM PC
>> in 1980, opted to use the 8086/8088 CPU instead of the also availble
>> M68k CPU because the Intel one was less powerful so it would not be
>> in competition with the mainframes the PC was supposed to interface
>> with primarily.

> Too lazy to research now, but it sounds credible, yes.

>> If this rumor is true and IBM had acted differently, the PC ecosystem
>> today would also look quite differently.

> Or the Z8000. Absolutely. 8086 was, architecturally, the worst possible
> choice at that time.

Having had a 68k would have been awesome. No stupid memory segmentation,
32bit instructions and internal address size, 24bit external address size.

Imagine a PC with 4GB adressable memory space in 1980.

S°

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Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.