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From: gp@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The New Chips
Summary: They did not!
Keywords: Intel IBM
Message-ID: <462@picuxa.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 88 13:39:25 GMT
References: <4746@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1430@husc2.UUCP> <4227@utai.UUCP>
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In article <4227@utai.UUCP>, tjhorton@utai.UUCP (Timothy J. Horton) writes:
> >IBM is sticking with the Intel line, so the 80386 will (probably be
> >better) than the 68020.
> 
> IBM used the 80xx stuff because they owned Intel.
			          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Where do you people come from.  IBM did _not_ own Intel.  It was simply
that Intel provided a complete chipset for a personal computer whereas
most other companies only supplied individual chips (i.e. CPU).

Greg Pasquariello
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