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From: Meir I Green
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:20

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In article <1jmrn2INN9ck@fido.asd.sgi.com> autry@sgi.com (Larry Autry) writes:
>In article <93021.123116SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu> SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu (Senthil Ramas Kumar) writes:
>>
>>I very much agree with you that the term "x86", does not lend it nicely to
>>suit the description that we are looking for.  Further, as a previous poster
>>had pointed out its a little technical in nature, and it _could_ be obscure
>>to people, especially those who are new to the area of interest.
>>
>>but, I somehow feel that just keeping "pc" instead of "ibm.pc" is too
>>generic, and can be very confusing to people.
>>
>>Kumar
>What about comp.sys.intel.*.  Is there something wrong with that?
>--
>Larry Autry
>Silicon Graphics, St. Louis
>autry@sgi.com 

Hey!  This IBM PC AT 386 clone uses an *AMD* 40 MHz chip and OS/2 2.1 beta :-)
No slowpoke Intel 33 MHz in here!

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