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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
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Subject: Re: Am386 release?
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Date: 9 Mar 91 17:31:21 GMT
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In article <27d84e3c.3f6a@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>, rteasdal@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Falconer) writes:

>	There has been a fair bit of speculation locally about the
>AMD 386 clones, which supposedly (?) are to be formally announced and
>shipped this month. The silicon is for real - in fact, a thief in
>Malaysia hijacked an AMD truck running from the local AMD final
>assembly (no fab there, if I have it right) to the airport. He went
>straight to the packages containing the Am386 chips and took only
>those devices, out of the many he had to choose from... sounds like
>the Intel allocation policy has some of the Asian clonemakers hungry
>enough to do just about _anything_ to get 386s!

And how d'ya know it wasn't a covert action on the part of Intel? :-)

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