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Mere coincidence?

Apple’s shares closed yesterday at $80.86 – on the very same day CEO Steve Jobs introduced the company’s first-ever Macintosh computers based on Intel microprocessors at Macworld Expo. 8086 was, coincidentally, Intel’s first 16-bit, x86 processor. It shipped in 1978, the year after Apple was founded. This was followed by the 8088, which was used… Read More »