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From: scott@hpcvccl.cv.hp.com (Scott Linn)
Subject: Re: AMD i486 clones: Now legal in US?!?!?!
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wyman@rtsg.mot.com (Mark S. Wyman) writes:
: poe@wharton.upenn.edu writes:
: 
: >A friend of mine called me on the phone and told me he was wathcing CNN
: >and saw a report that the ruling prohibiting AMD from selling their i486
: >clones has been thrown out, making it legal for AMD to ship in the US.
: 
: Yep, this was on the news.  Great news for consumers.  Bad news
: for Intel.  

Their stock dropped quite a chunk with the announcement.

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Scott Linn
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