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From: jed4885@ritcv.UUCP (Jason Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The New Chips
Keywords: Intel IBM
Message-ID: <146@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 88 07:53:40 GMT
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Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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In article <623@gethen.UUCP> farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) writes:
>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 

People, please, I'm getting sick of seeing arguments of how much Intel stock
IBM does or doesn't own in comp.sys.m68k.  Please check your followup line
before you go shooting these things off.

					-Jason

(With my luck this will some how get cross posted to rec.whale.lovers. :^)