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From: hisself@digital.net (Jim Wallace)
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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
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Date: 15 Dec 1994 13:55:12 GMT
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Monty H. Brekke (brekke@dopey.me.iastate.edu) wrote:

                         (much stuff deleted)  
: few months, and was thinking of getting a Pentium. However, I have a
: serious problem with Intel's current attitude and would really like to

Ah ha, IBM's ploy is working.  I tend to think it is more the media's 
version of Intel's attitude, rather than Intel's attitude.

BTW, I have NO financial interest in Intel (damn it), I just think that 
they are getting a raw deal.

                     Jim Wallace