IBM 6000 vs HP 9000 series 700

[John Litvin ~]

In article <1991Jun27.194224.29879 at leland.Stanford.EDU> fangchin at leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) writes:

>   This leads me to... a 40Mhz i860 offers 80 MFLOPs.  Can IBM Austin
>   people design a addon board to utilize i860 for us?  After all, IBM owns
>   part of Intel and if RISC 6000 lines are designed for technical users, I
>   would say the more MFLOPS the bigger your market share will be :-) Now this
>   is THE MOTIVATION for IBM :-)

IBM owns no Intel stock.  During the nasty years in the mid 80's, IBM did
buy a chunk of Intel's stock (as a sort of loan to make sure that the 80386
would come out), but as soon as Intel started making money again, IBM sold
all of the shares.

John Litvin
Intel Corp.
jlitvin at morticia.intel.com