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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Recent Motorola ad seen in Byte
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Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 15:30:58 EST
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In article <615@mipos3.UUCP> kds@mipos3.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker ~) writes:
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:of course, if Mot stopped making all of those 680?0 processors compatible with
:the 6800, I guess that you might have an argument.  What is that I hear you
:say?  The 68000 isn't compatible with the 6800?  Gee, I guess Intel will
:just have to call back all the 80?86s that run 8080 code, which is exactly
:0 of them.  Blah, blah, blah...Now NEC seems to have picked up the ball by
:making their V20 and V30 run 8080 code in addition to the 8086 code, if
:that is what you really want...

Does this mean that Intel now accepts the V20 and V30 processors?????

While we're talking about COMPATIBILITY, when will that 386 chip
drop-in replacement for the 286 (described in PC-WEEK and elsewhere)
be available to rescue 286 boxes from obsolesence?   How fast a clock
rate will it accept?