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To: Scumbria who wrote (26863)	5/24/1998 12:51:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 33344

In retrospect, there has been a lot of "Dumb Luck" in relation to the success of Intel. Just as there was an element of "Dumb Luck" when a certain PhD from MIT went to work for Intel in 1974. If I remember history correctly when IBM went looking for a CPU in 1980 the Motorola 6800 was a vastly superior chip to the 8086 but Motorola didn't have the capacity to produce the chips in the quantities that IBM wanted. Motorola told them that. So they turned to Intel who gladly could stamp out, not the 8086, but the even more inferior 8088. When you couple this with the stupidity of Apple you can see how Intel got such a foothold. And maybe why IBM is just a double loser vs Microsoft and Intel...and maybe why IBM would love to make up a little lost glory from Intel. Jim