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crum@alicudi.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) writes:

>Are Intel advertisements on billboards as ubiquitous in other places as
>they are here in L.A.?  Everywhere I drive I keep seeing them.  A few weeks
>ago, they had "286" in black serif type crossed out with a spray-paint-look
>red X.  Now, the billboards say "386" in black type with "SX" in the same
>spray paint red as a suffix.  The new ads also display "PC technology with a
>future" along the bottom and include a depiction of workers painting the "SX".

>I wonder if Intel has a primary reason for the campaign, like say, for
>their UNIX effort.  Have the billboards been discussed in this group?

Intel has competition for the 286, but none for the 386SX.  I agree that
it's a bold move nevertheless.

There's a hilarious article in a recent Unix World about UNIX on the
386SX.  It includes quotes from some bozos who are either completely
stupid or (more likely) somehow tied to 286 manufacturing interests.
One guy ("analyst" Will Zachmann of Canopus Research) says that the 386
lacks the internals for real computing.  And some guy from Harris (a
286 manufacturer) says that there's no good reason to go to the 386,
because the 286 already supports 76% of the SX's instructions.  The
article goes on and on with other observations like "...when 32-bit
applications are the norm, the SX machines will still be partly
usable."  Quite entertaining.


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