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From: ned@ghostwheel.UUCP (Ned Nowotny)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The New Chips
Message-ID: <130@ghostwheel.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 88 22:56:17 GMT
References: <4746@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1430@husc2.UUCP> <4227@utai.UUCP> <9342@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Reply-To: ned@ghostwheel.aca.mcc.com.UUCP (Ned Nowotny)
Organization: MCC Database Program, Austin, Texas
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Keywords: Intel IBM

In article <9342@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@zephyrus.UUCP (william E Davidsen) writes:
>In article <4227@utai.UUCP> tjhorton@ai.UUCP (Timothy J. Horton) writes:
>>
>>IBM used the 80xx stuff because they owned Intel.  Considering that they
>>owned the company, and the 802xx stuff was coming out around then, you
>>think they would have looked at the specs and built the PC to move in
>
>I don't mind you expressing your opinion, but I do take offense
>at presenting blatent lies as fact. IBM does not own Intel. IBM
>never did own Intel. At one time they had a small block of Intel
>stock (about 15% as I recall).
>

While the corrections are appreciated, please note that anything like
a 15% share of a publicly traded corporation is not "small".  IBM
gained a considerable amount of clout over Intel with its acquisition
of this block of stock.

However, the stock was most likely purchased by IBM as an insurance policy
for its PC line and not because of a desire to base all their microprocessor
based products on Intel chips.  In fact, the stock was purchased after the
IBM PC was developed.

-- 

Ned Nowotny (ned@ghostwheel.aca.mcc.com.UUCP)