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   On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:15:11 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >krw@attt.bizz wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:19:15 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"   
   >>  wrote:   
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   >> >   
   >> >krw@attt.bizz wrote:   
   >> >>   
   >> >> On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:55:12 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"   
   >> >>  wrote:   
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   >> >> >   
   >> >> >Mark Zenier wrote:   
   >> >> >>   
   >> >> >> In article ,   
   >> >> >> Michael A. Terrell  wrote:   
   >> >> >> >   Now tell everyone how you designed dozens of commercial products   
   with   
   >> >> >> >the 8275. (Which was designed for 8085 based systems.) I don't recall   
   >> >> >> >ever seeing one in any hardware.  The 6545/6845 and the 5027 CRTC   
   were   
   >> >> >> >what I've seen.   
   >> >> >>   
   >> >> >> The Intel MDS blue box system used it, if someone wants a design   
   >> >> >> example.   
   >> >> >   
   >> >> >   
   >> >> >   Was that their 8085 development system with the 8" disk drive?   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Diskette?   
   >> >   
   >> >   
   >> >   Sloppy disk. The drive in mine was bad,   
   >>   
   >> That would be a diskette.  We had a pile of the MDS systems(mostly   
   >> x86) around work, networked together over one of their servers.  All   
   >> of them went in the trash heap a quarter century ago.  They worked but   
   >> they were *SLOW*.   
   >   
   >   
   >   Well, the old guy that read the bits to & from the 1 MHz processer   
   >WAS old. ;-)   
   >   
   >   I am still amazed that Vital Industries was able to do real time NTSC   
   >color video effects with a 2 MHz Z80B and meet FCC requirements for   
   >broadcast.   
      
   It wasn't so much that the processor was slow but Intel couldn't code   
   their way out of a paper bag.  M$ took lessons from them.  ;-)   
      
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