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Article #21942Re: IBM PC prehistory
From: Ronald S. Woan
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 20:08
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 20:08
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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. I wasn't part of IBM back then, but I do know that the stake in Intel(~19%+ option to buy more?) was purchased at a much later date, so the real reason appears to have been cost. The 8088 was the cheapest thing with 16-bit internal registers that was available in quantity at the time. Ron +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan (IBM VNET)WOAN AT AUSTIN, (AUSTIN)ron@woan.austin.ibm.com + + outside of IBM @cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron +
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ibmchs!auschs!awdprime!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron From: ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: IBM PC prehistory Keywords: IBM bought stake much later and has since sold it! Message-ID: <1255@awdprime.UUCP> Date: 4 Jan 90 20:08:18 GMT References: <5946@alvin.mcnc.org> <1546@aber-cs.UUCP> <33896@mips.mips.COM> <21559@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Sender: news@awdprime.UUCP Reply-To: @cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron Organization: IBM-Austin, AWD Lines: 19