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To: Nhiem Nguyen who wrote (803)	2/4/1998 6:29:00 PM
From: Dave Chanoux	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2882

When I was employed by a company with stock options (long ago), the options had to be exercised or they would expire after a specific period. Exercising the options created current taxable income. So the company had a program which would allow an individual to exercise options with zero cash flow: sell enough shares to pay the option price plus an estimate of the tax. On appreciated shares, as I would suspect would be the case with Analog, I would not be surprised to see 25 - 30% of the option shares sold in order to complete the transaction. As a result, I'm not surprised to see regular insider selling. Remember also, Analog shares have split 3 to 1 over the last 4 years. Regards, Dave Chanoux