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From: shankar@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Subash Shankar)
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Subject: Re: rom 03 upgrade (or lack thereof)
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Date: 12 Feb 90 04:23:38 GMT
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In article <1990Feb12.004805.1894@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs122aw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
>...  Probably 99% of the processors in the world are made in the USA.

Not quite.
NEC has a significant portion of the 80XXX market as a second source (I even
remember reading a few years back that Intel was worried about NEC moving ahead
of Intel in microprocessor sales).  That's probably why Intel doesn't have
second sourcing for its newer chips.


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