[geeks] Photo "sharing" site recemondations please.

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Apr 29, 2008, at 07:52 , Lionel Peterson wrote:

>> From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
>> Date: 2008/04/28 Mon PM 11:59:16 CDT
>> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>> Subject: Re: [geeks] Photo "sharing" site recemondations please.
>
> <snip>
>
>> One of the cheap upgrades for the 8088 computers was to replace
>> the processor with a drop in NEC compatible chip. Not only was it  
>> cheaper
>> and faster, also ran the 8080 instruction set, so you could boot CPM
>> and run your old apps.
>
> I am 99 44/100th percent positive the 8088 was compatible with the  
> 8080
> instruction set - it could also run 8008 code (if you had any) if I  
> remember
> correctly. This was Intel showing they learned the lesson of the IBM  
> 360
> series and the value of a consistent instruction set.

...and consistently failing the lesson that a bad instruction set  
needs to be allowed to die to have mercy on its users.

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