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To: Paul Engel who wrote (141209)8/9/2001 9:20:23 PM
From: Bob Kim  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
Paul, What's the origin of "foil"? I've always thought it came from IBM.



To: Paul Engel who wrote (141209)8/10/2001 10:21:26 AM
From: dale_laroy  Respond to of 186894
 
>I loved the early foils with quotes about how nobody needed anything faster than an 80286, 80486, Pentium, etc.

The pundits never stop showing what MEATHEADS they really are.<

There were always some pundits willing to make this claim. Some even claimed that consumers would never need anything faster than the 6502. But such claims did not even approach mainstream until the 25 MHz 386 was released.


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