Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ssingh
From: ssingh@watserv1.waterloo.edu ($anjay "lock-on" $ingh - Indy Studies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Intel is arrogant!
Message-ID: <1500@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 90 05:29:08 GMT
References: <2012@v7fs1.UUCP>
Organization: University of Waterloo
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In article <2012@v7fs1.UUCP> sv@v7fs1.UUCP (Steve Verity) writes:
>
>	So now Intel is the most holy keeper of *the* standard, are
>they?  Looking after the interests of the customers, making sure that
>no one does us a dis-service, eh ?  Oh pleeeeeeease.  
>
Like it or not, Intel is the standard, and that's the bottom line. I've
talked to people at both Intel and Advanced Micro Devices about the
lawsuit over the 386. Though the details were very scant, there seems
to be a disagreement over the contract that the two made. AMD feels that
it has a right to the IC designs of the 386. Intel does not feel that way.
 
Introducing the SX chip was a good move by Intel, though I would call it
somewhat underhanded too. It's common knowledge that they were out to
undercut their licensees for the 286 by getting everyone to move to 386.

AMD still plans to participate in the 386 market. It seems reasonable to
expect a performance improvement similar to what happened when Harris
licensed the 286.

Like IBM, Intel is big. How can you not be arrogant when you can smother
anyone at will?


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