Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcrware!mwca!bill From: bill@mwca.UUCP (Bill Sheppard) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Am386 release? Message-ID: <1823@mwca.UUCP> Date: 12 Mar 91 20:18:45 GMT References: <27d84e3c.3f6a@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> <855@spim.mips.COM> Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Santa Clara, CA Lines: 26 In article <855@spim.mips.COM> mash@mips.com (John Mashey) writes: >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". >...There's one billboard in Santa Clara South of >Great America that usually has some AMD chip promotion... >...I don't normally drive that way, so I don't know what's there now. It is an AM386 billboard, though something slightly different than the one in Boca - I think it may be just a giant "AM386". Of course, this billboard is roughly 500 yards from Intel's headquarters (which are undergoing a _%@&$*!___gigantic_ expansion right across the street from me which will cause gridlock in the whole area, but that's another story). AMD often puts technoid stuff on there that probably baffles a fair percentage of the population, though less here than most places. They had one with a speedometer calibrated in Mb/s with the needle at 100 and a reference to FDDI recently. -- ############################################################################## # Bill Sheppard -- bills@microware.com -- {uunet,sun}!mcrware!mwca!bill # # Microware Systems Corporation --- OS-9: Seven generations beyond OS/2!! # ######Opinions expressed are my own, though you'd be wise to adopt them!######