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From: mjt@mcnc.org (Michael Tighe)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IBM PC prehistory
Message-ID: <5946@alvin.mcnc.org>
Date: 27 Dec 89 13:51:24 GMT
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Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
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In article <21559@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> seeger@manatee.cis.ufl.edu (F. L. Charles Seeger III) writes:

> I think that IBM choose Intel for largely business reasons...

At the time, IBM owned a large percentage of Intel stock (> 20%). Because
of this, It is unlikely they would have gone to another chip maker.

-- 
Michael Tighe, mjt@ncsc.org