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From: JESUP@GE-CRD.arpa (JESUP RANDELL)
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Subject: IBM PC design
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Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 13:47:50 EDT
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Date:  6-OCT-1986 12:25
From: randell jesup
Sender: JESUP
Subject: IBM PC design
To: info-micro@brl@smtp
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>The story I heard was that Intel approached IBM with a computer design
>and managed to sell IBM the design for the PC.  The design time for the

According to a friend who worked at the IBM site in Boca Raton, Florida,
there were three competing design teams at IBM, two of which used the 68000.
Guess which team won.  The 68000 DID end up in an IBM machine, the 9000
(now discontinued, replaced by RT).

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