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vakНабрёл на любопытный комментарий к статье про историю процессора 8088 в персональном компьютере IBM.
Daniel Stanton
13 August, 2021
"...say Microsoft talked IBM out of using an 8-bit processor and moving instead to the 16-bit 8088." - No, nope. Not unless Allen and Gates had a time machine. They're missing a big point - Who controlled chip design and architecture at Intel in the late 1970s??
Perhap Intel's largest stockholder and owner of most all of Intel's bonds. And who was that?
Until the mid-1980s IBM owned 49.5% of Intel's stock, owned most all of Intel's bonds/loans and supplied Intel with many of the chip architects. IBM corporate rules restricted its stock ownership of Intel to 49.5%. In the 1950s-1980 IBM bought exactly one company - Science Research Associates (SRA); the board of directors had this limit in place. IBM controlled Intel and its direction.
Also, a question that can be debated but never answered: Would IBM have been better off making the x86 architecture and instruction set proprietary? IBM had that option, IBM corporate legal said it could be done and be upheld in U.S.courts and the courts of several other major countries. The IBM management committee explicitly decided not to protect that intellectual property. How would that decision have changed today's market?
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Date: 2021-09-15 02:39 (UTC)Был бы еще один мак. А PC стало бы что-то еще.
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Date: 2021-09-15 02:45 (UTC)financial transaction that began in 1982, when we needed a cash infusion
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That 1982 infusion came 18 months after I.B.M. introduced its first personal computer, based on the Intel 8088 microprocessor. The computer giant was fearful at the time that Intel might not have enough capital to develop follow-on generations of the chip
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In total, I.B.M. invested $642.7 million in Intel in 1983 and 1984, in return for about 20 percent of the company's outstanding stock
Кому верить, блогеру или уважаемой газете?
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Date: 2021-09-15 04:28 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-09-15 05:26 (UTC)Вопрос задан неправильный так как IBM - это компания производящая архитектуру для таких монстров как mainframes, стоимостью миллионы долларов, а тут под ногами какая-то x86 архитектура путается? Вы что издеваетесь, когда у IBM большие решения и большая архитектура для маленькой планеты, а вы с какой-то дешевкой тут суетитесь?
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Date: 2021-09-15 05:32 (UTC)Про Мак не уверен — это все таки реакция на PC
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Date: 2021-09-15 08:16 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-09-15 08:31 (UTC)вообще интел вышел в топчег не за счёт этой так себе архитектуры, а за счёт экспоненциального улучшения техпроцессов имени закона мура