🚀 go-pugleaf

> 
>   I didn't see anything in the announcement about availability
> of these chips by themselves.  If these chips are not
> available, it might be very difficult (impossible?) for
> competitors to build directly competitive machines - they would
> be limited to supplying add-on boards.  This is quite a 
> difference from the present situation with the 8088 and 80286
> based micros, because of the use of an available cpu chip.
> 
>   Of course in the good old days every computer had a 
> proprietary instruction set - have we come to expect a
> different situation?
> 
And in the good old days, the plug compatible manufacturers made quit a
bit of money underselling IBM. Proprietary chip sets raise the ante to
enter the game, but they don't make it impossible to be competitive.