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Subject: Re: Intel Microprocessors
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Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 18:35:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 17 18:35:01 1987
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Reply-To: 164485913@excalibur.UUCP (Mark Schaffer)
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In article <2764@hoptoad.uucp> farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren) writes:
>Well, all in all, it seems to have been a pretty benign Frankenstein.  Just
>ask the thousands (millions?) of people who have been, and are, using PCs,
>8088 and all, to do real and productive work.  THEY don't care whether it's
>an 8088, a 68000, or a Cray X-MP inside the box, just that it gets a job
>done.

You can say that again!  Especially if you do little low-level programming
at all, you really couldn't care less what is inside of the thing.  As long
as it gets the job done, correctly in some cases, in a reasonable amount of
time.

 
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