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On Thu, 5 Nov 2026 21:19:12 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> But ultimately IBM  and Microsoft made the rather shit 8086 the future,
> rather than the Z8000, or 68000.

Exxon had bought Zilog and IBM was in a pissing contest with Exxon so that 
was out. Motorola couldn't come up with 68008 parts that would work with 
the cheap 8 bit peripherals. IBM had used the 8085 in the System 23 
successor to the 5100 series so had some familiarity with Intel.

Intel saw the 8088/8086 as an interim solution while they developed the 
iAPX 432. The 432 was an utter failure so here we are today.