Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Path: utzoo!utdoe!contact!guy
From: guy@contact.uucp (Guy Lemieux)
Subject: Re: 80386 Export Embargo -- is it true ??
Organization: Jet Penguin Lavatories
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 91 16:35:28 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.163528.10768@contact.uucp>
References: <1991Feb13.125307.29232@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Keywords: 80386 Export Embargo -- is it true ??

In <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 ???

That's not what I heard.  I've heard that Intel's only i386 and i486 chip
source is in Tel-Aviv (you know, SCUD-SCUD)  !!!!!

(BTW Intel prefers them to be called i386 and i486, not 80386 and 80486).

>Thanks in advance !
>Torsten Sturm 
>tnsturm@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

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Guy Lemieux          ENG SCI                          University of Toronto
guy@contact.uucp      9 T 2      Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering