Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!mash From: mash@mips.com (John Mashey) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Am386 release? Message-ID: <855@spim.mips.COM> Date: 11 Mar 91 18:23:54 GMT References: <27d84e3c.3f6a@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> Sender: news@mips.COM Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 28 Nntp-Posting-Host: winchester.mips.com In article tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) writes: ... >I don't know if this constitutes a formal announcement, but there is a >giant billboard on I-95 not too far from the Boca Raton IBM plant where >PCs are (or used to be anyway) made. It says something like: "Test drive >the 1991 model Am386". >I can't recall ever seeing a billboard advertising a CPU chip before >(although I can imagine it being more common in California than Florida). Probably. There's one billboard in Santa Clara South of Great America that usually has some AMD chip promotion. (At one point, it said something like "Entering 20 MIPS country", causing some people to mystify us for a while by telling us they'd seen our (MIPS Computer) billboard. I don't normally drive that way, so I don't know what's there now. Going North on 101 from Palo Alto (Menlo Park or Redwood City), there's often an Intel billboard; I've seen 2 or 3 different ones in last year or two, including the 286 with X through it, and others. Although I haven't seen them myself, I've heard that the AM386 billboard opposite Boca Raton has clones in the obvious places elsewhere... -- -john mashey DISCLAIMER: UUCP: mash@mips.com OR {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!mash DDD: 408-524-7015, 524-8253 or (main number) 408-720-1700 USPS: MIPS Computer Systems MS 1/05, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086