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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (193434)	4/14/2006 3:46:11 AM
From: aleph0	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Suggest you read the book "inside intel" ! // Are we ignoring a whole lot of history ? Intel threw crumbs to AMD as a second source to satisfy IBM's demand back in IBM PC days. AMD didn't win anything on its own. // Intel actually only got the contract because AMD agreed to second source. IBM was adamant about AMD second-sourcing, not about Intel being the main partner. JS had friends at IBM at the time and AMD was doing ( highly reliable ) chips for the US military ! // Then when Intel cut AMD off from 386, AMD went whining to the courts to claim that the 8086 license extended to 80386. If AMD had a real product (instead of a second source substitute) they'd come up with a new design, like IBM/Apple power pc, or sun spark or DEC/HP alpha. Of course you'll notice those are all dead. And that's what will happen to AMD if they stray too far from making copies of Intel. // It is well known that the X86 "architecture" is the cripple of the industry, but thanks to Intel marketing & MS, we have to live with it ! IBM chose 8086 rather than MC68xxx because they were using MC68xxx in their midrange System36's at the time ( that cost up to ca. 1 mio. DM a piece )! They wanted a "poor" architecture for the home PC .. and got it, from Intel ! Ironically, the most primitive OS (DOS) and the worst chip architecture(X86) have become industry standard ! ..says something about marketing I think !

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