On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Tim May wrote:
The next such battle will be about Intel, which, if anything, has even more of a commanding presence in the market than MS has. Besides "investigations" (a DC codeword meaning: "donate money to the ruling party"), the antitrust buzz is that the Intel-DEC deal may be scotched.
Intel's failed competitors (Cyrix, AMD, Motorola, Sun, SGI/MIPS, Intergraph) can be counted on to run crying to Mother Government, crying that Intel is too successful.
Failed? AMD is farfrom a failed competitor. Intel is nowhere near being a monopoly. In this industry,Intel creates a chip, then AMD,Cyrix, etc take the published specs on that chip and duplicate the work. They same some effort from having to make opcode decisions, but then they don't get first crack at the market. AMD has a *Very* good chip in the K6, receiving much attention as being a serious competitor to Intel's chips. Intel is in no way nearly as hated as Microsoft. Many people hate MS products irrationally, some of those also hate the 80x86line of chips. The number hating the chips is muhc lower than the number hating MS. Maybe because Intel tends to have more reliable produts? Who knows. Intel is *not* in any danger of being a target for an antitrust suit in the near futur, in truth they don't even have the signs going for them. (No dumping of products, no tying of products, though Slot-1 might cqualify as this, I doubt it.) Even the industry mags point out this difference between the two. It's a lot easier to develop competing hardware than a competing OS. Ryan Anderson - Alpha Geek PGP fp: 7E 8E C6 54 96 AC D9 57 E4 F8 AE 9C 10 7E 78 C9 print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`