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  2. From: djohnson@cs.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
  4. Subject: Re: 68060
  5. Message-ID: <41361@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
  6. Date: 20 Nov 92 22:05:23 GMT
  7. References: <17592@mindlink.bc.ca>
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  9. Organization: =CSE Dept., U.C. San Diego
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  12.  
  13. >The Game. When IBM asked for a CPU, they said "here's ours. It's really
  14. >good." Intel said "Let's discuss this..." and when the doors of the
  15. >smoke-filled room opened, IBM agreed to use ALL Intel chips (including their
  16. >ageing 8-bit 8080 peripherals), and IBM owned 30% of Intel stock.
  17.  
  18. An old urban legend has an IBM junior exec exclaiming:
  19.   Intelligent cpu?  I thought you said Intel cpu...
  20. -- 
  21. Darin Johnson
  22. djohnson@ucsd.edu
  23.     "I wonder what's taking Guybrush so long..."
  24.