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From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The New Chips
Message-ID: <623@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 88 19:27:31 GMT
References: <4746@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1430@husc2.UUCP> <4227@utai.UUCP>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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Keywords: Intel IBM

In article <4227@utai.UUCP> tjhorton@ai.UUCP (Timothy J. Horton) writes:
>
>IBM used the 80xx stuff because they owned Intel.

IBM has never 'owned' Intel.  At most, they owned about 12% of the stock,
which always struck me as a reasonable move, since they were dependent on
Intel for many of their products (not just for the PC line, by the way).
If I remember correctly, the major portion of the stock purchase was
AFTER the release and success of the PC.

-- 
Michael J. Farren             | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just 
{ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}!     | dogmatize it!  Reflect on it and re-evaluate
        unisoft!gethen!farren | it.  You may want to change your mind someday."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame