Re: MOS8520R4 - 1988 vs. 1991

On 1/31/20 8:33 PM, smf wrote:
> On 30/01/2020 14:11, Mia Magnusson wrote:
>> Agree. I think many people forget how slow the actual tech people did
>> use did evolve at the time. It's easy to think about Amigas and on the
>> PC think about 386 CPUs while in practice I don't think anyone did
>> throw away a C64 or a Plus/4 in the late 80's and I'm 100% sure that
>> 8088 based PCs were rather common up until early 90's.
> 
> In my experience of the UK, the 8088 PC's were quite uncommon. I only
> ever remember seeing one IBM 8088 machine and it was so slow that it was
> practically unusable. The Amstrad PC1512 was the first affordable PC
> that came out in 1986 and that came with an 8086.
> 
> I ended up doing embedded software in the mid 90's and that was z80
> (well some hitachi SOC anyway). We were still selling that up to around
> 2000.
> 
> I suspect some people did throw away c64 & plus/4 in the late 80's. I
> kept mine, but that says more about me.
> 
> On 29/01/2020 17:55, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:
>>
>> I don't think those were made to be sold to be included in other
>> products but to be sold as spare parts for repairs, we all know how
>> problematic the 8501 and 8360 with '84 datecodes were.
>>
> They were selling sid chips for use in PC sound cards in 1989, I really
> don't think they cared who bought what if there was money in it.

Yes, but the SID was about the only chip that got used somewhere else. 
The other ones where too specialized to be usedful in other designs.

  Gerrit