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: Fri, 15 Feb 91 15:49:52 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.154952.4174@contact.uucp>
References: <1991Feb13.125307.29232@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <1991Feb13.220445.7386@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <1991Feb13.235723.913@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
Keywords: 80386 Export Embargo -- is it true ??

In <1991Feb13.235723.913@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) writes:

>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.

Yeah, they're getting them from Matsushita.  And/or themselves.  Sun has
encouraged the cloning of the SPARC in hopes of getting it as popular as
the IBM PC (by flooding the market with clones).

>-- 
>Kaleb Keithley                        kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov

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