Re: Why still using Apple II?

["Alex Freed" <alexf@mirrow.com>]

Paul,

the thread is getting a little pointless. Clearly we agree on more points
than not.

Just one little thing.

> ...and too bad the 8086/8088 didn't try to mimic the Z80 architecture
> instead...
>
and

>  Too bad the 8086 didn't try
> to be backwards compatible to the Z80 -- but after all, Zilog was a
> competitor to Intel....
>

Have to mention the fact that the biggest flop in Zilog's history was the
Z8000 - a Z80 extension into
the 16 (if not 32) bit world. Never worked with this chip.

So maybe that was not such a great mistake on Intel's part...