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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: AMD vs. Intel Arbitration
Message-ID: <2791@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 25 Oct 90 15:42:59 GMT
References: <2780@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1990Oct25.141449.420@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <1990Oct25.141449.420@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> clc5q@shamash.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman) writes:

| The quoted poster seems to have no understanding of the second sourcing
| issue that was raised concerning the choice of the 8088 for the IBM PC.

  Let me stop here and say that if you understand how the economy works
you know this isn't true. In the future please take irrelvant flames to
mail, as few people care if you understand economics, or if you dislike
what I said.

  Intel has a monopoly the same way Ford does. Intel makes the 386,
Ford makes Ford cars. In both cases the big buyers have price contracts
before the buy decision is final, and Motorola and Chevy are still in
business. Monopoly pricing only applies if you have no competion with
similar products. And who else makes the 680[34]0 to protect Apple? Not
even Motorola if they don't settle with Hitachi (or have they).

-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.