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To: semiconeng who wrote (22667)	12/16/2000 9:36:18 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) of 275872

"Also, when intel extended 16 bit into 32, they had tons of resources, a huge installed customer base, and very little competition," Depends on what you mean by "very little competition". There was AMD and Harris at least competing for the 80286 business. In fact, an annoyance for Intel was that AMD was pushing the 80286 to 16MHz and Harris reached 20MHz with their 286's, while Intel had capped performance at 12.5MHz to leave headroom for the 80386. Since the 286 would whomp on a 386 at the same clock rate in real mode (especially if there were frequent interrupts), this was a major problem for Intel. Luckily the desktop market saw the 386 as the future.

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