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From: shankar@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Subash Shankar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: rom 03 upgrade (or lack thereof)
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Date: 12 Feb 90 17:31:46 GMT
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In article <1990Feb12.060242.17837@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs122aw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
#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.


As much as I hate to admit it, it's probably more because NEC is smart
enough to spend money only cloning the chips with the largest market, like the
80XXX's.  
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Subash Shankar             Honeywell Systems & Research Center MN65-2100
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