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To: Dan3 who wrote (16073)	10/26/2000 10:03:10 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 275872

RE:"Prior to IBM's intervention, AMD designs owned the microprocessor market and Intel make RAM and calculator chips. Intel was scrappy little company that got a great break and didn't blow it - but this market was handed to them on a platter. To their credit, they took advantage of the gift they were granted" The choice came down to Motorola and they told IBM they couldn't supply all the chips IBM wanted. "Scrappy" Intel said they could. The chip was the 8088 I believe. The rest is history... Jim

To: Dan3 who wrote (16073)	10/26/2000 10:15:48 AM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 275872

Dan,<AMD had the 2901, second sourced by Fairchild, Monolithic Memories, Motorola, Nat. Semiconductor, Raytheon, Sescosem, and Signetics.> You forgot at least one more "third source" as MinElectronProm of former USSR :) :) :) I bet a lot of the "bit-slices" are still flying in space, air, and underwater.

To: Dan3 who wrote (16073)	10/26/2000 2:00:49 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 275872

Re: "Just before IBM legitimized the PC, a number of bit-slice processors were available (since, at that time, a single chip was totally inadequate to build a real computer, the CPU was assembled from a number of chips called bit slices)." Who cares?