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From: lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Intel bugs / bugged by Intel :-(
Message-ID: <11019@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 8 Nov 90 01:25:05 GMT
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In article <1990Nov7.184237.22840@mozart.amd.com> brett@cayman.amd.com 
	(Brett Stewart) writes:
	<discussion of monopoly elided>
> Intel caused there to be
> fewer 386's out there 

I can practically hear Henry Spencer cheering.

What would the business look like today if we'd shot Gene Amdahl in
1971?  Multics and TOPS-10 would have looked better against much more
expensive 370's.

Nightmare for the day: in 2001, there will be a gallium arsenide chip
with an 8086 mode. 
-- 
Don		D.C.Lindsay