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From: timothym@tekigm2.UUCP (Timothy D Margeson)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: 386 PC vs Sun
Message-ID: <1017@tekigm2.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 17:53:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 29 17:53:46 1986
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Insert a dsicussion about the new Compaq 386 Deskpro priced similar to
 a SUN workstation.......

In article <1038@gilbbs.UUCP> mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) writes:
>   Yeah, maybe.  But it's still got the same braindamaged instruction set and
>   register complement as the 80286, 80186, 8086, 8080, 8008.  In otherwords
>   it is a 32 bit high speed microcontroller chip.  Intel *STILL* hasn't
>   learned how to make *COMPUTERS*.  (I doubt they ever will)
>
>tom keller					"She's alive, ALIVE!"
>{ihnp4, dual}!ptsfa!gilbbs!mc68020
>
>(* we may not be big, but we're small! *)

Intel may not make good computers, true, but I'll bet Compaq and IBM sell alot
more 386 based machines than Sun and the others using 68k combined!

The issue here is economics (and a thing called compatibility)!

p.s. written on an IBM PC-AT, running Crosstalk XVI, to a Gould 9000, running
rn overlaid running vi, talking over a multi-national network of ATT and ITT 
phones lines.....

Who gives a rip what the processor is, as long as the machine can be used as a
tool to get work (or play) done?