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The 640 K Barrier
The story I heard at the time was that the IBM team did want to go with the 68000, but Motorola couldn't guarantee enough units.
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on April 15, 2017
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In those days you had to have a second source for your chips, in case something happens to you. AMD was Intel's seconds source, Motorola had none.
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