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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: The New Chips
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Date: 27 Jan 88 22:52:43 GMT
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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.

Actually it reached a peak around something like 17%. Not that Intel did
anything particularly special for them that I could see. (I worked there
beteen 83-85.). Also by now you have heard that as of february they
will have sold all of the shares they bought and have a 0% stake in 
them. 

--Chuck McManis
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