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From: slin@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Steven Philip Lin)
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Subject: Re: 80386 BIOS REPOST (UPDATED) SUMMARY
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Date: 22 Sep 89 19:28:05 GMT
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In article <18672@ut-emx.UUCP> nghiem@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Alex Nghiem) writes:
>[Saw a report on
>CNN that  Micronics, a company that manufactures switches for the Air Force
>was going out of business because of investigations into supplying substandard
>switches to USAF. Any relation? Anybody know?]

Not true.  Micronics manufactures only 386 based motherboards and memory cards.
It is possible, however, that there may be another company by the same name
that is going out of business.  But I know for a fact that Sunnyvale based
Micronics is alive and doing very well.  When I last checked, I heard that 
Micronics had moved up to become one of the top 5 or 6 OEM manufacturers of
386 boards.  The other top 3 or so were Compaq, IBM, and Zenith.  I can't 
remember the fourth one, but the other biggies like Tandy were further down.