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posted by rr Homepage E-mail, Berlin, Germany, 22.11.2007, 21:28

> BTW, I'm no computer historian, but AFAIK, AMD was something like an
> official 3rd-party producer of 286 chips. It wasn't until the 386 that
> Intel went exclusively with Compaq. (Or something like that.)

That's true. "Prior to this, the difficulty of making chips and the uncertainty of reliable supply required that any mass-market semiconductor be multi-sourced, that is, made by two or more manufacturers, the second and subsequent ones manufacturing under license from the designer." (from Intel 80386)

A great book about such stuff is Inside Intel by Tim Jackson. :-)

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