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From: Peter Busser
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 10:01

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cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz writes:

>I agree with Mike.  I think the part of David's story about the "other
>CPU" is a confused, and erroneous re-telling of the following story.

I believe the story about the "other CPU" is about the Intel 432. The 286
was intentionally crippled so that it wouldn't compete with the 432, but the
286 was a success and the 432 flopped. I don't know any details about the 432,
but it was apparently incompatible with the 80x86 series.

Greetings,
Peter Busser

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From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
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Subject: Re: MS's misconduct!
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