Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!urbsdc!tucker From: tucker@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: A plot against IBM? Message-ID: <27000031@urbsdc> Date: 15 Sep 88 20:49:00 GMT References: <3959@bsu-cs.UUCP> Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #R:bsu-cs.UUCP:3959:urbsdc:27000031:000:445 Nf-From: urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM!tucker Sep 15 15:49:00 1988 >If this is true, what does it mean? Does this mean the Apple should >stop trying to compete with IBM, instead to focus their attention on >Compaq? Will Compaq be the new IBM? (I hope not). An Intel press release was published in Electronic News (the mag) a few weeks ago. It claimed that Intel engineers thought that the Micro Channel Architecture would seriously degrade the performance of machines built around the new Intel 80486. Tim