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From: e-smith@utah-cs.UUCP (Eric L. Smith)
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Subject: Re: 386 Family Products
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Date: Sat, 16-Nov-85 17:27:14 EST
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In article <6386@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>So how come no one complains about the wimpy 6502 in Apple IIs? What is
>this selective myopia? I think you're all just a bunch of IBM-phobes.

Maybe because even though the 6502 is brain-damaged by today's standards,
even Apple is not trying to pass it off as state-of-the-art, vs. IBM's
PC-AT (80286, only 6MHz!).

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