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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Intel
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Date: 8 Nov 90 21:30:23 GMT
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In article <0093F67F.7998C140@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:

| Nightmare hell, sounds like an interesting idea. Maybe Intel will take the '586
| or whatever they have at that time and move it to GA. 

  I see that Intel is under pressure to move up the delivery of the 586
to 1991. I heard that they were looking at putting some windowing
support on the chip, but it wasn't clear if that would be X, windows3,
or something else. A 586 should be about fast enough to run X...
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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.