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From: hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Motorola policy
Keywords: Intel IBM
Message-ID: <1094@oakhill.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 88 23:53:35 GMT
References: <4227@utai.UUCP> <1029@edge.UUCP> <2167@tekred.TEK.COM> <3138@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales)
Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx
Lines: 32
Posted: Sun Feb 14 17:53:35 1988

In article <3138@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>In article <1029@edge.UUCP>, doug@edge.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes:
>> [speaking of Motorola policy in 1980]
>> Motorola makes the 68000, but by company policy they won't sell them for
>> use in home computers.
>
>	Isn't that restraint of trade, and thus illegal?  Aren't you
>required by (US) law to give the same deal to all your customers, i.e. if
>you will sell 68000's to XYZ Computer Company for $N each, in 1000 piece
>lots, you must also sell them to anybody else with the same conditions,
>regardless of what they plan on doing with them?
>-- 
>Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
>System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
>455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016

	Yes, that would be restraint of trade of trade *if Motorla had such
	a policy*.  As far as I know Motorola has never had a policy even 
	remotely like that suggested.  In fact, since the beginning of the 
	68000 program, Mot has courted any and *all* customers.  How do you
	thing the 68000 got into the Amiga, the Atari, and the Macintosh?

	The 68000 didn't end up in the IBM pc, much as we would have liked
	to have had it, because, as someone correctly pointed out: it wasnt
	available in the time frame that IBM needed and they thought that the
	6809 didnt have enough performance.


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