Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Date: 13 Jan 2025 06:17:36 GMT Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <2e17ec15-582f-5a71-84e5-d4d490274270@example.net> <7454fa51-3534-2584-2197-90613efb2091@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 34rtNgjdVt9+A+qISZT7BwNnmBjLb6ec4H2FfCyHYWeLfxWsfI Cancel-Lock: sha1:tF46IFyonpBP4CbfXH477lQMkSE= sha256:+xiaYCpgZ2lX71Obo3zhdewEiKd6RyHl8M75f+vco7Q= User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:64267 On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:21:26 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: > On 1/12/25 7:07 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On 2025-01-12, 186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote: >> >>> The 8086 would have been better, but the extra wiring apparently >>> would have pushed up the price too much according to some old >>> interview with an IBM guy. >>> They didn't KNOW it would be super-successful, so they kinda >>> hedged their bets, split the diff. 640k banks were a hell of a lot >>> better than 64k banks. >> >> The 64K barrier was alive and well on the 8086/8. >> I wrote a lot of horrible code to deal with large arrays. Then there >> were all the memory models: tiny, small, large, >> huge... yuck. >> >>> The instructions for the 8088 were "familiar" to anyone who did >>> the 8008/8080 and not TOO far from Z-80 sensibility - so I think >>> that cinched Intel as the maker. WISH they'd used the 68000s. Ever >>> see the Sage boxes ... gone alas before I could afford one ....... >> >> I got into the Amiga and enjoyed the 68000 that way. > > Alas I spent big $$$ and bought the very first Amiga model. NOTHING > but "Guru Meditation" errors ... dumped the thing and bought a PC > clone. I didn't have anything that sophisticated; I bought a 68000 evaluation board. I also have my Captain Zilog t-shirt from a Z8000 seminar but I never had one in my hands. I don't know how much Exxon had to do with it but it quickly became apparent the Z8000 was an 'also ran' and the Z80000 never hit the streets. I loved the Z80 but Zilog did a lot better dropping zeroes than adding them. The Z8 lives on but a $200 development kit isn't very attractive.