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From: her3@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Benjamin 'Drew' Herman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Motorola policy
Message-ID: <3431@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 88 18:13:01 GMT
References: <4227@utai.UUCP> <1029@edge.UUCP> <2167@tekred.TEK.COM> <3138@phri.UUCP> <1094@oakhill.UUCP>
Reply-To: her3@sphinx.uchicago.edu.UUCP (Benjamin 'Drew' Herman)
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Keywords: Intel IBM

In article <1094@oakhill.UUCP> hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales) writes:
>	...........  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
>	think 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.

However, Motorola also sold to BIG BLUE  the machine was called the 9000 and was
promptly discontinued.  Several people wanted to use these machines to 
get the graphics capabilities of the 68000 and the name of IBM behind 
their products .... especially to entice the IBM worshipers in the world.
These people are now looking to MACII's and SUN's.

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Drew Herman 
her3@sphinx.uchicago.edu
Dis: I have no company so who cares what I say... I'm not responcible anyway.