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From: jkg@pyr.gatech.EDU (Jim Greenlee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: How to start a Holy War (was: Microprocessors)
Message-ID: <4499@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 12:33:32 EST
Article-I.D.: pyr.4499
Posted: Thu Nov 19 12:33:32 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 02:23:12 EST
References: <2175@tekig5.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: jkg@pyr.UUCP (Jim Greenlee)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Keywords: Intel, Motorola
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In article <2175@tekig5.TEK.COM> danm@tekig5.TEK.COM (Daniel Milliron) writes:
>I have had experience programming early Intel processors, but am not real
>familiar with the 80x86 or 680x0.  Everything I have heard says "Motorola is
>better" but no one ever says why.  Could someone who knows why (or why not)
>please email me an explanation?  

I hope that anyone who is tempted to post some unnecessary inflammatory 
reponse to this will honor Mr. Milliron's request that the answers be sent 
via E-MAIL. Otherwise, I am afraid that I will finally be forced to figure 
out how to use KILL files :-). Here's hoping that we can allow this thing 
to die a quick and painless death.

						Jim Greenlee
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