Re: Apple Computer sides with Satan



On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 16:58:10 -0400, RichA <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>AMD hasn't been a copycat since the 486 chip.

Didn't the Athlon take part of its architecture from the DEC Alpha?
But for the most part you're right -- anymore AMD only copies the
instruction set from Intel, nothing else.



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