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		Motorola, Intel, IBM Make a Mainframe in a PC – The PC XT/370 (thechipletter.substack.com)
		11 points by Bogdanp 4 months ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

AstroJetson 4 months ago [–]

At one point Burroughs did the same thing, there was a chip version of the Burroughs A Series processor. Soon after Intel chips became much more powerful and they could run a software emulation.

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