Legacy apps in Windows/OS X was Re: Old MS-DOS & Win Software

[Allison]

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>Subject: Re: Legacy apps in Windows/OS X was Re: Old MS-DOS & Win Software
>   From: "Michael B. Brutman" <mbbrutman-cctalk at brutman.com>
>   Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:09:22 -0600
>     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>Jim Leonard wrote:
>
>>
>> Here's another dumb question:  When I open up one of my XTs, why does 
>> my 8088-1 have an AMD logo on it?
>
>That's an easy one ...  IBM insisted on two sources for the 8088.  AMD 
>made an 8088 clone under license from Intel, and was the second supplier 
>used by IBM.  Unlike the V20, it was an exact duplicate.
>
>
>Mike
>www.brutman.com/PCjr
>

By that time NEC had the 8088, AMD, And at least one European SGS maybe
and a few I may have forgot.  in 1981 The 8088 was already three 
years old!

Allison