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To: M31 who wrote (50157)	3/8/1998 2:26:00 PM
From: Gary Strike	Respond to of 186894

I don't believe Intel would even think about trying to double-cross a strategic partner such as Microsoft. Why...that would be a "Pie in the Face".

To: M31 who wrote (50157)	3/8/1998 2:33:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

M31 - Re: "has Intel in the past or might they in the future consider developing their own operating system? " Intel designed and sold ISIS-II, an OS for their now-defunct development systems. I used it a few times - it was clunky, and aimed primarily at software and hardware developers - with emphasis on Assembly-language and PLM programming. In fact, I think Intel developed the PLM language as well. I think Intel also offered a Real-Time version of Windows or DOS for their Multi-Bus board division. These all more or less disappeared when Intel exited the development system business. Early on in the youthful days of the PC, Intel offered Digital Research's CP/M OS hard-wired into a ROM/I/O chip. It never went anywhere - same fate as DRI (bought out by Novell). As for new OS's - Intel is involved in helping many existing vendors of OS's migrate to the IA64 architecture. Some of these have been publicly announced - HP (HPUX), Sun (Solaris) and SCO (Unixware). Some have not been discussed in public. Re: " Or should Intel stick to what it knows? Or does Intel have too many irons in the fire right now?" Intel is doing precisely this - with a few wrinkles. They are getting into networking to speed up this area to make better use of Intel's high speed processors. Intel has financed over 100 (possibly a lot higher) independent software developers to help develop new and better applications that will take advantage of Intel CPUs - AVID and Discreet come to mind. Paul