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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: AMD vs. Intel Arbitration
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Date: 19 Oct 90 23:27:25 GMT
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In article <1416@msa3b.UUCP> torre@msa3b.UUCP (Patrick Torre) writes:
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|pardon me for being naive, but what has intel gained
|from this partnership?

To begin with, IBM would not use a single sourced uP in the IBM PC.
Suppose IBM had chosen the Z8000 or better yet, the 68K? Where would
Intel be today?

|Improved design, does intel get
|all the improvements AMD may have made? 

If they had something worth trading, AMD might be willing to talk
about it. Or they might not, I certainly don't know.

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