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To: Joe NYC who wrote (27204)	6/8/1998 11:51:00 AM
From: Frank	Read Replies (1) of 33344

Then there was that small matter of IBM having to put up $230 million dollars and purchase up to 40% equity in Intel to save their bacon. The second big mistake IBM made, after leaving Microsoft with the rights to DOS was dumping their Intel position. As Paul pointed out, the 8088 was in stock for the POS Datamaster machine. The 68000 was superior, but IBM never thought that the PC was going to amount to much, so they wanted to minimize development effort to less than a year for the whole project. Fun days in Boca, along with the string bikini checks during lunch at Deerfield Beach.... Frank

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