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From: ehohnbau@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Just an idea for the gang at Intel.
Message-ID: <9105312309.aa03113@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 91 06:09:52 GMT
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That guy from Intel was right.  There are some bashers out there.
A big reason for this (I believe) is that maintaining compatibility with
the old stuff forces kludgey design solutions and the purists cringe at
stuff like that.

How seriously have guys at Intel (or should I say IBM) considered coming up
with something really cool and un-fettered chip and including an optional
co-processor like a '386 on a board so that compatibility can be maintained
with the rest of the PC world?

Kind of like the Mac LC/Apple II emulation board.

I would appreciate if replies were also sent by email so that I don't miss
the post by accident. (ehohnbau@bonnie.ics.uci.edu)