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From: aeusesef@csun.UUCP (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Intel microchips / PS2s
Message-ID: <729@csun.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 18:46:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: csun.729
Posted: Tue Sep  1 18:46:36 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 16:38:29 EDT
References: <768@imsvax.UUCP> <18166@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Reply-To: aeusesef@csun.UUCP (Sean Eric Fagan)
Organization: California State University, Northridge
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In article <18166@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>In article <768@imsvax.UUCP> paul@imsvax.UUCP (Paul Knight) writes:
[some brief info about the new IBM's]
>
>It must be January here in California because every day for the last
>month I've walked by an office with a Model 80 in it. I always knew
>California was ahead of the rest of the nation.

Um, Phil, is you company a software/hardware developer of IBM products?
If so, then IBM is real nice and lets you have them earlier.  I will admit,
however, that IBM did (will?) release the 80 before their original estimate.
I don't believe I've ever seen a Model 80, and this school tends to get
IBM's equipment really quick at times (why, once we got an IBM AT with only
6 months delay 8-)).
 
>Here's a question for you people who like to second guess IBM's choice
>of the 8088 for the first PC. When did Motorola come out with the
>equivalent of the 8251, 8253, 8259, and 8237? (this assumes you
>know what they are and their importance)

Uh, oh, I'm more out of it than I though:  I thought these were Zilog chips!
(really!  I need to start reading data-parts books again, I guess, right
after I finish OS:DaI)

>Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.com

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