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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (39871)	4/14/2000 7:56:00 AM
From: cordob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Would AMD even exist if it were not for Intel's Anti-trust concerns?" Please anybody correct me if I am wrong. The way I remember history is as follows. In the mid 1980's when the 8086 became successful, Intel needed a second source of supply. The US government will not buy and many large contractors ditto if there is no second source. Intel then licensed AMD for certain versions of their processors, which got AMD into the microprocessor field. Before that I think they were mainly making normal chips, gates, counters etc as far as I remember. (used to design then but have been retired for 10 years now) AMD then turned a little "rogue" by designing their own versions, sometimes better of the microprocessors. By the way I am not promoting either (long AMD, LSI, INTC, TXN) at the exoense of the other. Cor