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To: Paul Engel who wrote (16199)	10/27/2000 8:13:58 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"Then it might have been the Zilog 8000." Could have been, I don't remember. It would have made sense, since the Z-80 outperformed the 8080A, it was felt that the Z8000 was going to be the 16 bitter of choice. There were a lot of reasons it wasn't, really late (too late for IBM) and Zilog had trouble getting it to work. I wasn't questioning your statement of AMD not having anything to offer IBM, you are correct in that. I was (and am) questioning your characterization of them in that time period. They were fairly innovative, albeit not too successfully, and they had a fairly close relationship to Intel. The present war between the two companies is rooted in some decisions that Groves made back in the '80s. It wasn't that way under Noyce, at least not publicly.