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Sender: crough45 AT amc DOT de
Message-Id: <97Aug8.120011gmt+0100.17059@internet01.amc.de>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 11:02:38 +0100
From: Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
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To: trill AT netbook DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Intel Opcodes

James MacDonald wrote:

> In article <97Aug1.161808gmt+0100 DOT 17048 AT internet01 DOT amc DOT de>, Chris
> Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de> scribbled :
> >In those days there was no WWW or even Internet to get
> >them from...
> 
> Wow, so Intel was around in the 60's and early 70's producing 8088
> manuals? Hmm..

Wake up at the back there.  The term "Internet" was not used until
the 80s, before then it was a set of partially connected networks
including ARPANET (to which the company for whom I worked did have
limited access in 1982 but Intel didn't put their manuals on it)
and a load of UUCP machines.

And it certainly was the 8086 to which I was referring, which was
commercially available by 1980 at least.

(There was no significant WWW until the early 90s, as I recall...)

Chris C

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