Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!curtis From: curtis@uwmacc.UUCP (Alan Curtis) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: 386 Architectural Description Message-ID: <1619@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 11:31:41 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1619 Posted: Thu Oct 31 11:31:41 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 10:41:26 EST References: <130@intelca.UUCP> <836@terak.UUCP> Reply-To: curtis@uwmacc.UUCP (Alan Curtis) Distribution: net Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 25 >> At the request of some people I am reposting a fairly brief description >> of the architecture of the 80386. >> (followed by 197 more lines of advertising) John Blalock writes: >Who are the "some people"? Intel marketing types, no doubt. If everyone feels >happy about paying the phone bills to receive your message, I'm sure I can put >together a similar "fairly brief description" of my company's latest product >which I'll be glad to post. But if I do it, then others will too and the net >will become a mass of commercials and then cease to exist. Please register my >vote as against such use of the net. What newsgroup are we in anyway, net.censor? I read net.micro and net.micro.pc for just the type of information that I got from the postings by the Intel folks. If those people who are reading net.micro are not interested in what seems to me to be a significant step forward in microprocessor development or the fact that the 80386 chip will most likely be the chip of choice for lots, if not most, micro-computer manufacturers in the near future, why the heck are they reading net.micro in the first place? By the way, if the company Mr.Blalock works for comes out with a significant new product that is relevant to this news group, I'd be more than happy to hear about it. _alan