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From: schow@bcarh185.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Let's pretend
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Date: 20 Dec 90 17:54:34 GMT
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In article <1990Dec19.223934.1568@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>             [...]                      since I'm talking about completely
>trashing the instruction set and redesigning it).

I thought Intel already did exactly this! However, being sensible, they called the
80960 instead of a i586.


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Me? Represent other people? Don't make them laugh so hard.