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To: Dan3 who wrote (15951)	10/26/2000 2:21:20 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: 'If IBM had handed the to PC CPU franchise to AMD instead of Intel, then AMD would be Intel." Except IBm didn't hand anything to anybody. Intel earned it. Go check out the original IBM BIOS code - it was all generated on Intel Development platforms circa 1979/1980/1981. All the supporting chips on the MB were Intel-designed controller chips - except the floppy disk controllers. AMD was just a chip cloner back then - dependent upon Intel to define and create a market so that AMD could then saunter on in with cheaper versions of cloned parts and steal business. AMD was of no use to IBM back then - in fact, as I recollect, AMD was at that time a second source to a Mostek 16-bit CPU - NOT the Intel 8086.