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From: smsmith@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M. Smith)
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Subject: Re: IBM clones are nice...
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In article <9254@aggie.ucdavis.edu> kuan@iris.ucdavis.edu 
(Frank Kuan) writes:
>            [deletions] IBM astounds the world by coming out with
>the PS/1, which uses the 386's crippled sibling,
>the 16bit 386sx. Is it my imagination or are we going BACKWARDS
>in technology? Surprisingly, the 386sx performs quite well,
>since almost all IBM lameware is 8088 code. 

Wrong, sorry.  The PS/1 has a state-of-the art 286 microprocessor
flying along at a blazing speed of 10 MHz.  Now don't flame IBM
again until you can give them credit where credit is due.

SS