The Inside Story of Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Microprocessor
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/heroic-failures/the-inside-story-of-texas-instruments-biggest-blunder-the-tms9900-microprocessor [spectrum.ieee.org]
2017-10-21 16:02
Indeed, some who know the history assert that the Intel 8088 was the worst among several possible 16-bit microprocessors of the day. It was not. There was a serious alternative that was worse. I know because I was in charge of the organization within Texas Instruments that developed it: the TMS9900.
source: L