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From: curtis@uwmacc.UUCP (Alan Curtis)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: 386 Architectural Description
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Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 11:31:41 EST
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>> 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