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- From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
- Subject: Re: Any new instructions in a i486?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.185056.25231@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 18:50:56 GMT
- Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park
- References: <1992Dec21.190305.513@qb.rhein-main.de>,<1992Dec22.043040.28363@adobe.com>
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- In article <1992Dec22.043040.28363@adobe.com>, zstern@adobe.com (Zalman Stern) writes:
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- >Its almost certainly true that NeXT has Pentium hardware in house and is
- >working closely with Intel. I doubt they signed a contract boycotting Cyrix
- >though. Having such agreements in writing looks bad during Federal Trade
- >Commission investigations if you know what I mean...
-
- I think it's fair to say NeXT has limited resources, and they probably just
- chose to take the path of least resistance by supporting the "mainstream"
- hardware.
-
- It would be more embarassing to claim NeXTStep runs on Cyrix hardware only to
- discover, after extensive real-world testing, it doesn't work under certain
- types of motherboard configurations, etc. etc...
-
-
- I have talked to Ehud, and lived.
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