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Date:      Wed, 20 May 1998 16:02:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com>
To:        "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>, jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com, grog@lemis.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Original PC (was: talk (fwd))
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980520160007.285A-100000@quark.ChrisBowman.com>
In-Reply-To: <199805201818.LAA17626@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, 20 May 1998, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:

>jack 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.
>>
>> 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?  :)
>
>	wasnt this part of "operation crush".  intel was selling
>	chips below cost in an effort to get 1000+ design wins in
>	a single year....the target was motorola....at lest this
>	is how i remember it from "inside intel". 

I don't know, but what a fuck up, as in the end the 68000s were second
sourced by at least signetics, and perhaps one other, I don't remember.
Though I do seem to remember that the second sourcing stoped around the
030 or 040

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Christopher R. Bowman
crb@ChrisBowman.com
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