On Jun 4, 2005, at 7:07 PM, T.L. Miller wrote: > On 6/4/05, at 7:57 PM, John McG, <ensignjd at optonline.net> said: > >> One thing nobody seems to have considered is that maybe Intel has >> been licensed to produce the IBM G5 chips since IBM is going to >> produce G5 chips for the X-Box and Apple. Maybe IBM can't guarantee >> the quantity Apple is expecting? > > Didn't IBM make X86 chips for an Intel competitor? Cyrix or AMD? Cyrix, I believe. In the 80's IBM also was licensed by Intel to mfg 8086/8088 and I think 80286 processors. -- Rod "Politics and Poker, Politics and Poker, Shuffle up the cards And find the joker. -- Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, from "Fiorello"