Пятнадцать байтов на стек от конца

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?