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From: cnap73@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Low cost Mac's ?
Message-ID: <43.26cfe9c6@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Aug 90 13:46:45 GMT
References: <3965@crash.cts.com> <1990Aug17.135606.7668@eng.umd.edu> <1990Aug17.163840.3414@portia.Stanford.EDU> <3874@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <1990Aug17.223202.3256@portia.Stanford.EDU> <3941@husc6.harvard.edu>
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In article <3941@husc6.harvard.edu>, siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) writes:
> In article <1990Aug17.223202.3256@portia.Stanford.EDU> aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) writes:
>>
>>This was true about 4-5 years ago, but nowadays IBM's R+D tends to trail
>>others.  Witness that there are a slew of 33 MHz 386 and 25 and 33 MHz
>>486s out there, yet IBM makes no such animal.  Okay, a fast 386 can be
> 
> 	Uh, no, they only just recently came out with a RISC machine which
> blows the pants off most every iAPX86 machine... :-) And it fits on the
> desktop, too...
> 

Another one in the "Not Only, But Also..." department :  At last summer's
launch of the 80486, both Intel and IBM produced 486 motherboards.  The Intel
board, despite inside access to 486 specs was extremely messy; the IBM board
was neater, faster and reportedly the conversion of a DOS version to work with
the hardware took "only a few hours".

Not bad for a trailing R&D department...

Stewart Fleming,
University Of Strathclyde,
Scotland

>  Rich Siegel