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 --------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@ChrisBowman.com <A HREF="http://www.ChrisBowman.com">My home page</A> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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