From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: peter@rulingia.com (Peter Jeremy) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 16:49:35 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Origin year of BSD csh? In-Reply-To: References: <201606261014.u5QAE1qX015184@skeeve.com> <5770032F.8030306@mhorton.net> <20160626181450.GK26734@mcvoy.com> <18119E4C-CE7E-44BD-B2D2-D7B32850238F@ronnatalie.com> <20160627112732.GA8110@autechre4> <20160627212028.GH3353@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: <20160628064935.GF83438@server.rulingia.com> On 2016-Jun-27 16:28:14 -0500, Ronald Natalie wrote: >Hard to believe the 8086 chip was “optimized” for anything. The instruction set was designed for programming terminals. I think "designed" is being generous. The closest to "designed" would have been for a calculation but then the 4004 grew warts and the warts grew warts. >The iapx32 was designed to run higher level languages (Ada) That was the iapx432. No relationship to the x86. And, whilst we're dealing with what-if's, what if the M68K had taken off, rather than the 8086. IBM had a M68K box in the same timeframe as the PC. -- Peter Jeremy -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 949 bytes Desc: not available URL: