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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?

Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
From: David Cantrell <usenet-20010705@barnyard.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:22:00 +0100
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amstrad.8bit, comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.sys.atari.advocacy, comp.sys.atari.st, comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.sinclair
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 19:10:44 -0400, Bob Retelle <bobr1@provide.net>
said:

>A further "design defect" of the 80386 is that I don't believe they're
>being made any more.

Oh, they are.  The 80186 is also still rather popular (it pops up
quite a lot in cheap disk controllers and the like, and consumer
appliances - my fridge has one for no reason that I can fathom).  Even
the 6502 and Z80 are still being manufactured for use in embedded
systems.

-- 
David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

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