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From: corey@svo.UUCP (Corey McCormick)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The New Chips
Message-ID: <188@svo.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 88 16:06:04 GMT
References: <4746@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <4227@utai.UUCP> <1029@edge.UUCP> <161@spked.UUCP>
Reply-To: corey@svo.UUCP (Corey McCormick)
Organization: Information Acquisition Group, Tulsa OK
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Keywords: Intel IBM

In article <161@spked.UUCP> you write:
>
>Just a clarification on a point by Doug Parde...  he stated that the 80286
>wasn't even thought of when IBM came out with the PC...
>
>I can't state when the 286 work began, but do know from documentation that
>it was well into design by 1982...  in fact, the design of the 386 began in
>1982...  I would assume that intel *was* working on the 286 at the time the
>PC came out...
>
>steve

For what it is worth, some people that were working for a couple of very
large IBM accounts were told by IBM in '75-'76 that IBM had designed and
built a computer with the same rough capabilities of an IBM 360 (model
60 I think, I've no idea what they are) ~1Mb addressable RAM, 64Kb
segments, ala 8086/8.  BTW, most posters of the '286 have a (C) 1982 on
the mask...



			Corey