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Re:Building the Commodore computer that should have existed by pwg on Sunday June 10, 2018 @02:30PM (#17279472)
> The end of all the 8-bit systems was pretty obvious by '89

While it might not have been as easy to see /in/ '89 in hindsight the seeds for the rise (and crowding out of other architectures) of the Intel x86 chips were already well sown and growing rapidly by then:

i386: released Oct 1985 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386)

i486: released April 1989 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486)

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Re:Building the Commodore computer that should have existed by walkingolof on Sunday June 10, 2018 @03:37PM (#17279817)
We all knew where it was going back in the late 80's, there was no question about that, Motorola had a hard time getting traction where it matter, the PC.
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