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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (226232)	2/17/2007 8:58:31 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Tench: Intel won by hook and crook, not open competition. IBM selected them for the IBM PC. Most at the time would rather IBM went with either Motorola and the 68K series or Zilog and the Z800 series. The former was better to program, had a flat memory model, had 16MB addressing limit and had 32 bit instructions available. THe latter had the best 8 bit version the famous Z80 and extended it to 16 bits and a flat memory model of 16MB too. I don;t recall, if it came with an MMU or FPU. IIRC, Motorola did have a FPU coprocessor available, but I don't recall how good it was. IBM required them to have a second source and Intel picked AMD. They then tried to break off the contracts with AMD to stop them competing once they got entrenched in the CPU business. That led to the first set of lawsuits and Intel lost them. AMD was granted the right to use the 386 and previous microcode in perpetuity. Intel could have legally just out competed and outproduced AMD, but they choose to be criminals and shafted them in other ways. Thus Intel didn't win in the "free market". They would have just been one of two roughly comparable suppliers, but for their illegal acts. Now AMD is succeeding in spite of those illegal acts. And that really worries Intel and its supporters. The x86 CPU market hasn't been free for a long time. Just another inaccuracy perpetrated by Intel. Pete