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From: boykin@custom.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 386 rumors, questions, and comments
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Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 09:09:44 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 14 09:09:44 1987
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Organization: Custom Software Systems; Natick, MA
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Keywords: protection sun machine

>  As far as I know, SUN has no plans to implement an intel based machine. 
>  This sounds like  a self-serving rumor started by Intel. The next SUN
>  machine out will be the SUN 4, which will be based on a very high speed
>  RISC processor(10+MIPS). The only rumor that I have ever heard about SUN
>  and Intel is that SUN was able to emulate the instruction set of the 8088
>  in a software routine on the SUN3, and still beat out the PC in performance.
>  They intended to offer this software emulation as their answer to IBM
>  PC compatibility since, as far as I know, SUN would rather die than dirty
>  their hands with an intel chip.

Looks like SUN is dead than... They've had a '286 add-on board for
their systems for at least a year now, maybe more.  By adding this
board you have a fully compatable DOS system.  DOS comes up as
a window on your system that you can toggle between.

I know the guy who designed the board and got an early demo,
it was pretty nice.


Joe Boykin
Custom Software Systems
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