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From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 80386 Export Embargo -- is it true ??
Keywords: 80386 Export Embargo -- is it true ??
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.235723.913@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 13 Feb 91 23:57:23 GMT
References: <1991Feb13.125307.29232@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <1991Feb13.220445.7386@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1991Feb13.220445.7386@watserv1.waterloo.edu> jching@watnow.waterloo.edu (John Y. Ching) writes:
>In article <1991Feb13.125307.29232@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> testurm@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Torsten Sturm ) writes:
>>I've heard rumours, that the US-Government has layed an
>>embargo on the export of 80386-Processors !
>>Is this true, and when why ???
>>
>
>If that was true, it certainly doesn't apply to Canada yet!
>

That'd be a laugh if they embargoed 386's and not SPARCs?  Toshiba is
selling 386 laptops, they must be getting them from somewhere.

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Kaleb Keithley                        kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov

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