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To: D. Swiss who wrote (38142)	12/2/1998 10:06:00 AM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

That's easy! I'm certain that Earl has all his $$$ invested in DELL, weenie-butt! jajajajaja El

To: D. Swiss who wrote (38142)	12/2/1998 10:27:00 AM
From: Eddie Kim	Respond to of 97611

I believe Mason has a lot more tied up in COmpaq than 7000 shares. I believe rudedog explained this several months ago. If I recall Mason has millions of $$ locked in COmpaq. Perhaps rudedog could explain it to you.

To: D. Swiss who wrote (38142)	12/2/1998 10:29:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Drew - You are apparently ignoring the CPQ options that Earl has been granted since his arrival - a little over 300,000 shares by my calculation. Earl has not been on board at CPQ very long, he has only been eligible for 2 sets of options and those are non-qualified (non-convertible) options. He would have to sell those options, take a 30% tax hit, and reinvest to actually 'own' the shares - which would be a pretty stupid thing for him to do. I have seen this figure come up before but I don't think it means anything. There are not too many Dell executives buying Dell stock either - the ones who show a current holding mostly got either direct grants or convertible options at some point in the past. What I mostly see from Dell insiders is selling. This has nothing to do with confidence in the stock, it's just prudent personal financial management.