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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IBM PC prehistory
Message-ID: <1989Dec30.235854.14254@world.std.com>
Date: 30 Dec 89 23:58:54 GMT
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Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
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In-Reply-To: mjt@mcnc.org's message of 27 Dec 89 13:51:24 GMT


>> 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.

Sounds conspiratorial and circular. Why did they own 20% of Intel?
Possibly because someone at IBM thought they had good products and
would prosper? If IBM didn't like Intel's chips well enough to use
them themselves mightn't they've sold that stock and moved the funds
to, say, Moto or whoever they thought was doing it right? Etc.

I suspect the real story hasn't come out here, these reasons sound
like hindsight.

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        -Barry Shein

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