From: "Randy H" 

And TI ate their own dogfood, too-lots of TMS 9900's were used in their
minis-and their mini's were no slouches, either.

A friend of mine and I developed a memory daughter board where you plugged in
the 9900 CPU-boosted the speed dramatically as you were using the full
16-bit bus for memory access as oppsoed to the 8-bit memory bus hack job.

Alas, TI didn't have the stomach to continue to make a go of it. And as far
as the 99/4A went, they really screwed over developers with their
heavy-handedness and their twisted view of marketing-i.e., they owned
everything and paid you the royalty.

"Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in
message news:3e4664a1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Which was odd because TI had the most sophisticated CPU of the whole lot.
Very impressive architecture for a chip of that era.
>
> "Randy H"  wrote in message
news:3e465fae{at}w3.nls.net...
> > ...remember, the TI, Atari and Commodore were treated more like toys
than as 'real'
> > computers of their day (Apple, IBM PC, TRS-80s.)
>
>

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