[rescue] Some days ....

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 04:26:50PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 04:12 PM, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
>    I wasn't speculating...I've *bought* the blasted things.
> 
>    Companies like IBM get special discounts even beyond sheer quantity.  
> I'd guess they probably paid $6-7/ea for 8088s...though that *is* 
> speculation.

Did IBM not have some early sort of cross-licensing agreement with
Intel on patents?  That would also have played into low pricing.

--P