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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?

Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
From: "sands-of-iowa" <sands@cableone.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 01:55:14 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amstrad.8bit, comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.sys.atari.advocacy, comp.sys.atari.st, comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.sinclair
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80386 is used a lot by NASA for controllers.
David Cantrell wrote in message
<4v39ltkbjq26dfvf586nh2gkrfe1imun18@4ax.com>...
>On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 19:10:44 -0400, Bob Retelle <bobr1@provide.net>
>said:
>
>>A further "design defect" of the 80386 is that I don't believe they're
>>being made any more.
>
>Oh, they are.  The 80186 is also still rather popular (it pops up
>quite a lot in cheap disk controllers and the like, and consumer
>appliances - my fridge has one for no reason that I can fathom).  Even
>the 6502 and Z80 are still being manufactured for use in embedded
>systems.
>
>--
>David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

References:
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
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- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Beyonder <beyonder@vrx.net>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: wbdesnoy@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: "william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: wbdesnoy@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: "Branko Badrljica" <brankob@avtomatika.com>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Bob Retelle <bobr1@provide.net>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: David Cantrell <usenet-20010705@barnyard.co.uk>

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