Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!pitt!vax.cs.pitt.edu!jonathan From: jonathan@cs.pitt.edu (Jonathan Eunice) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: the Am386(tm) is cool! Message-ID: Date: 2 Apr 91 03:26:24 GMT References: <1991Mar11.231609.5370@amd.com> <162@altos86.Altos.COM> <1991Mar27.184328.18461@ims.alaska.edu> Sender: news@pitt.UUCP Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Organization: University of Pittsburgh Computer Science Lines: 15 In-reply-to: ftpam1@acad3.alaska.edu's message of 27 Mar 91 18:43:28 GMT ftpam1@acad3.alaska.edu (MUNTS PHILLIP A) writes: >Since Intel is the sole source of the '386, I think they would be very >interested if anybody were making pirate copies of the i386. I hate >to say this (especially on a public forum like this), but obviously >the poster is not well informed, or does not keep up with current >information. I believe that IBM has the right to produce the 80386. I don't know if they actually make them. They have not to date, but a recent article (in the Wall Street Journal, I believe -- I will look it up if someone is massively interested) suggested that IBM will begin to produce its own in order to give it better profit margins.