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Originally Posted by idrougge
The 6502 could be second-sourced from Rockwell, the 6800 from Hitachi and AMI.
The 68000 was available from Hitachi, SGS-Thomson, Signetics and others.
Note that the 8086 was hardly used by any manufacturer of computers, games or instruments outside of IBM.
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look at the timeline though, when IBM chose the 8088 it wasn't. They learned from their mistake.