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From: rapin@bnrmtv.UUCP (Eric Rapin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: The New Chips
Summary: IBM owning Intel stock...
Message-ID: <3309@bnrmtv.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 88 00:10:38 GMT
References: <4746@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1430@husc2.UUCP> <883@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>
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In article <883@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>, delaney@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (John Delaney) writes:
> 
> Those discussing IBM's commitment to the 80x86 family should keep in
> mind IBm's purchase of a nontivial share of Intel (~10%) a few years
> back. That may tend to mix cause and effect.
> 
> John

If you read recent newspapers, IBM just recently sold off the last
of their Intel stock (which at one time was about 19%). It has something
to do with pleasing European investors but that is all I picked up.

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