From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 20 06:18:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA03017 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 06:18:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA03012 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 06:18:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.0.Beta3/8.9.0.Beta3) with SMTP id JAA17687; Wed, 20 May 1998 09:17:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 09:17:57 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: Josef Grosch cc: Greg Lehey , Wilko Bulte , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Original PC (was: talk (fwd)) In-Reply-To: <19980519235429.A4203@mooseriver.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 19 May 1998, Josef Grosch wrote: [snip] > > > I think the reason they went with Intel instead of Motorola was > > > Intel told them the chip was ready, and Motorola told them 6 > > > months. Intel lied and shipped late. Motorola shipped when they said > > > they would but by that time they had missed their window. > > > > No, I don't believe that. The 8086 had been out for years, and I'm > > sure I saw 68Ks in 1980. > > > > Well, I picked up this bit of urban legend when I worked at Motorola. Sour > grapes I guess. As I heard it, Motorola wouldn't allow second sourcing of its chip. Intel was hungry enough, at that time, to go for the idea. Can you say AMD? :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null Mail from netcom.com blocked until they stop relaying SPAM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message