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To: Paul Engel who wrote (72925)	9/24/1999 7:48:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571808

Paul, Options are valuable if they have potential for gain as the company expands and the shares rise giving a large difference between the market price and the option price. Once the computer inductry reaches the same situation as the automotive industry where sales track the economy and increase at the rate of growth of the economy then options are less valuable as an incentive. If the SP is $83 and you get them and the SP climbs $2 per year, or even falls as we enter a bear cycle what value options? Intel has been on a long climb for decades, when will it plateau.? Why not? Attempts to maintain quasimonopolies might help in extending this climb if successful, diversification is another path to take and as various phases complete the climbout to plateau status that is the only growth mechanism. Intel is doing some of this, but it seems to me they should buy fewer Intel shares and do more diversification as that is a better place for that money to go. Bill