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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The New Chips
Message-ID: <19825@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 11 Feb 88 00:51:22 GMT
References: <4746@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1430@husc2.UUCP> <4227@utai.UUCP> <462@picuxa.UUCP> <1446@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost)
Followup-To: comp.misc
Organization: Boston University Distributed Systems Group
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In article <1446@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <462@picuxa.UUCP>, gp@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190) writes:
>> 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.
>
>For that matter IBM didn't design the IBM-PC. It burst fully fleshed from Zeus'
>head... uh... Seattle Computer Products.

Uh, you're going to get flamed for this one.  This is completely
false.  MS-DOS originally came from SCP.

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu