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From: Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: 486SX
Message-ID: <5716@mindlink.bc.ca>
Date: 2 May 91 22:39:08 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <3645@borg.cs.unc.edu> cullip@sargent.cs.unc.edu
(Timothy Cullip) writes:

>To me, it sounds like the marketing people at Intel have gone off the
>deep end. Or maybe they are just laughing all the way to the bank.

     Actually, it's kind of shrewd from a marketroid's viewpoint.  Now
that AMD, by producing a legal 386 work-alike, has broken Intel's
monopoly (why do you think 386s were so expensive?) Intel desperately
needs a way to bump them out of the market.  By selling the 486SX,
they can satisfy the status-seekers who want that magic 486 number
(whether they actually need it or not), while still soaking them for
the bucks later then they want to upgrade to a real 486.

    Then AMD can start all over again with the 486.  Ah, competition -
ain't it grand?

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
If your nose runs and your feet smell, you're built upside-down.