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During the initial meetings about the IBM PC, didn't Microsoft pitch the idea of using the 68k?
by ok123456 3y ago
During the initial meetings about the IBM PC, didn't Microsoft pitch the idea of using the 68k?
- 13of40 3y agoBill Gates claimed that at one of the Microsoft company meetings in the early 2000s.
- elvis70 3y agoBill Gates confirmed this in an interview published in PC Magazine in 1997 [1]: ..."Once we convinced IBM to go 16-bit (and we looked at 68000 which unfortunately wasn't debugged at the time so decided to go 8086)"... [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20010823113747/https://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1754&a=11072,00.asp https://web.archive.org/web/20010823113747/https://www.pcmag...