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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Re: ANOTHER 32-BIT MACHINE???  (L O
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Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 12:51:26 EDT
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>      Actually, the major reason that Intel seems to run away with the market
> is that Intel gets the support chips out the door along with the processor.

Have you talked to an 80186 user who wants hardware floating-point lately?
I hear there are, uh, some problems...

(This does not invalidate your basic comment, that Intel does a better job
on support chips than Motorola, which is true.  If you want a really odd
case, consider National, which has had pretty-much-clean support chips for
the 32000 series for some time, and is just starting to ship more-or-less
clean 32000 CPUs.)

(He who claims that National has had clean ["Rev N"] 32000 CPUs for N
months now has not talked to customers who tried to buy Rev N chips.
I'm told it's getting easier, but that's a very recent development.)
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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