Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!scocan!seanf
From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: World's Cheapest Unix Engine
Message-ID: <1990Jul10.105047.9817@sco.COM>
Date: 10 Jul 90 14:50:47 GMT
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In article <2329@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>|we could also use a [...] 80286
>Those processors would cost a lot more because there is no
>mass production of systems and vendor competition to keep the price
>down.

Huh?  The '286 is produced by *several* people.  Not just machines, but the
*processor* (AMD, Harrisson, Intel).  This is why Intel wants people to go
to the 386SX so much.  (Last I heard, AMD was in some arbitration with Intel
about the rights to produce the '386 [this was after the court decision];
hopefully, they will be able to do so.)