From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 20 13:02:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA14164 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 13:02:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from quark.ChrisBowman.com (crbowman.erols.com [209.122.47.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14058; Wed, 20 May 1998 13:02:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) Received: from localhost (crb@localhost) by quark.ChrisBowman.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA00367; Wed, 20 May 1998 16:02:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) X-Authentication-Warning: quark.ChrisBowman.com: crb owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 16:02:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher R. Bowman" To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: jack , jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com, grog@lemis.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Original PC (was: talk (fwd)) In-Reply-To: <199805201818.LAA17626@hub.freebsd.org> 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 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 My home page To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message