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To: Steve Porter who wrote (32147)	5/8/1999 6:49:00 PM
From: grok	Read Replies (1) of 33344

The link you posted says: "When Intel was fooling around with such dead-end products as the 80286, National was jumping way ahead with more far-seeing, more innovative products." I would like to point out that the 80286 was a hugely successful chip which made a ton of money for Intel. It was link 2 in a continuous chain of massively profitable PC chips that has brought Intel to its current dominance. Although spurned for its architecture (yes, it was hideous), the 286 implementation provided higher performance than any of its peers and its die size was small enough to support the volumes which were quite large for any logic chip in those days. It became the most profitable non-memory chip in the world until that honor was taken away by the 386 about three years later. The 32032 had a good architecture (of course it had no compatibility constrains) but poor implementation which caused it to miss the market since they just didn't get it debugged and yielding. I think that Seymore meant to say the Intel 432 was a deadend product.

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