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To: TST who wrote (31833)	10/8/1999 11:53:00 AM
From: grok	Respond to of 93625

RE: <I have to admit I love Intel as a Company & will not trash it. Like all powerful companies it has many enemies. But I think all in all, Intel as changed the world for the better & that is how these things work or the nature of the beast if you will.> I too love Intel and I spent 8.5 years working there. It is the number one manufacturering company in the world and maybe the best engineering company in the world. I still don't understand why they just threw the switch to 100% Rambus rather than waiting until Rambus was proven. But I believe now that dark forces are in charge so they are unable to make course corrections. So the course is set for a cataclysm. What a shame.

To: TST who wrote (31833)	10/8/1999 12:39:00 PM
From: John Walliker	Respond to of 93625

TST, . Looking back in time I'm sure Intel angered many by pushing the X86 arch. on the world. I'm equally certain the X86 had it's flaws too. Likely many could say & do say the same about Microsoft Windows. And so it goes. The way I remember it (having worked with computers since well before PCs were thought of) there was chaos. Lots of different processors like the 6800, 6502 and 8086 with even more operating systems, many of them just hard wired Basic. There was CP/M, which borrowed a bit from Unix. And of course the world of minicomputers and mainframes (real computers). Then came the IBM PC which used the 8088 processor from Intel (the cheaper version of the 8086) and came with PCDOS (aka MSDOS). The world saw IBM as endorsing a standard (any standard would do) and everyone followed. It helped that the technical manual gave full circuit diagrams and BIOS listings so people (including myself) could design add-on cards and be confident of the same architecture existing two years later. There were no timing specifications for the bus, but that did not cause too many problems. So Intel did not force their architecture on anybody - the world embraced it, warts (of which there were many) and all. John