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From: aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Low cost Mac's ?
Message-ID: <1990Aug20.220206.4691@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 20 Aug 90 22:02:06 GMT
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In article <43.26cfe9c6@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> cnap73@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:
>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...

Great!  Which IBM machine has one in it that can be bought now?

Aaron Wallace