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From: bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 80x86 numbering (was: 80486)
Summary: Beauty and the Beast
Message-ID: <2662@rti.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 88 07:16:56 GMT
References: <15374@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <45900175@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <16716@conexch.UUCP>
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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In article <16716@conexch.UUCP>, rob@conexch.UUCP (Robert Collins) writes:
> [...] I think
> downloadable microcode is lightyears more advanced than the '386.

The 80*86 family reminds me of something I once heard said about an
entirely different type of hardware (that floated rather than computed):

	"Beauty is only skin deep but ugly goes clean to the bone"

						Bruce C. Wright