Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!vsi1!daver!lynx!m5 From: m5@lynx.uucp (Mike McNally) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Intel (no)286, 386SX billboards Message-ID: <6475@lynx.UUCP> Date: 9 Nov 89 15:29:16 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc., Campbell CA Lines: 32 crum@alicudi.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) writes: >Are Intel advertisements on billboards as ubiquitous in other places as >they are here in L.A.? Everywhere I drive I keep seeing them. A few weeks >ago, they had "286" in black serif type crossed out with a spray-paint-look >red X. Now, the billboards say "386" in black type with "SX" in the same >spray paint red as a suffix. The new ads also display "PC technology with a >future" along the bottom and include a depiction of workers painting the "SX". >I wonder if Intel has a primary reason for the campaign, like say, for >their UNIX effort. Have the billboards been discussed in this group? Intel has competition for the 286, but none for the 386SX. I agree that it's a bold move nevertheless. There's a hilarious article in a recent Unix World about UNIX on the 386SX. It includes quotes from some bozos who are either completely stupid or (more likely) somehow tied to 286 manufacturing interests. One guy ("analyst" Will Zachmann of Canopus Research) says that the 386 lacks the internals for real computing. And some guy from Harris (a 286 manufacturer) says that there's no good reason to go to the 386, because the 286 already supports 76% of the SX's instructions. The article goes on and on with other observations like "...when 32-bit applications are the norm, the SX machines will still be partly usable." Quite entertaining. -- Mike McNally Lynx Real-Time Systems uucp: {voder,athsys}!lynx!m5 phone: 408 370 2233 Where equal mind and contest equal, go.