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From: cs122aw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Alfter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: rom 03 upgrade (or lack thereof)
Message-ID: <1990Feb12.060242.17837@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 90 06:02:42 GMT
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In article <57973@srcsip.UUCP> shankar@src.honeywell.com (Subash Shankar) writes:
>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.

So the Japanese don't know any better and are cloning the most brain-dead
series of microprocessors ever made.  I don't think anyone outside the USA
makes 65- or 68-series processors.  The Japanese can have the 80 series; I'd
never own a computer that uses one of those retarded 80x86 processors.

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