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Article #21841Re: IBM PC prehistory
From: Bruce R. Holloway
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1989 23:30
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1989 23:30
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In article <5946@alvin.mcnc.org>, mjt@mcnc.org (Michael Tighe) writes: > 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. Of course, IBM bought that interest in anticipation of contributing substantially to the growth of Intel.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caesar.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!ucsd!ames!sgi!bruceh@brushwud.sgi.com From: bruceh@brushwud.sgi.com (Bruce R. Holloway) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: IBM PC prehistory Message-ID: <47077@sgi.sgi.com> Date: 27 Dec 89 23:30:40 GMT References: <1546@aber-cs.UUCP> <33896@mips.mips.COM> <21559@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <5946@alvin.mcnc.org> Sender: bruceh@brushwud.sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 10