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From: pl@tut.fi (Pertti Lehtinen)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The New Chips
Message-ID: <2493@korppi.tut.fi>
Date: 29 Jan 88 10:38:23 GMT
References: <462@picuxa.UUCP>
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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From article <462@picuxa.UUCP>, by gp@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190):
> In article <4227@utai.UUCP>, tjhorton@utai.UUCP (Timothy J. Horton) writes:
>> 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).
> 


	As far as I know, IBM owned part of Intel on those days.
	And I think that chipset was not so very complete,
	as basic display controller (MC6845) is from Motorola.

				Pertti Lehtinen
				pl@tut.fi

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