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To: Dale J. who wrote (34795)	7/19/1998 2:34:00 AM
From: Steve Porter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572802

Dale, Yes, but MOT would by fighting Intel on Intel's turf. Intel wrote the book on x86 and they seem to no longer share the x86 book with anyone. Yes, but I don't think it matters much anymore. The only possible problem in the future is the IA64.. but no one knows how well that will do and it will certainly take _AT LEAST_ a couple of years to become widespread. Given that so much is known about it already, all that would be left to reverse engineer it would be the instruction set.. which is again documented. So I don't think Intel owning the playbook matters anymore (because someone else has a photocopy and a photocopier). IBM it seems would have the best shot at Intel, but they no longer seem interested in the challenge. I don't think IBM wants any piece of the market.. they are doing fine already.. I don't see IBM giving up the nice chooshy little part of it they have now (they lucrative and relatively inexpensive FAB contracts). Steve