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From: jkpachl@watdaisy.UUCP (Jan Pachl)
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Subject: Re: What if IBM Had chosen the 68000? Not what you think Re: 386 Family Products
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As far as I know, the main reason why IBM did not choose 68000 for the PC
was that at the time there was no second source for the 68000 chips;
certainly a very prudent decision.

Does anybody know anything more about this point?
 
                                               Jan Pachl