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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc.
To: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu (Annelise Anderson)
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 09:52:06 -0700 (PDT)
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	even if this was personal money and not corporate,
	$150 million is chump-change for bill gates.
	trash money...less than you or i would spend on a car.

	$36 billion at 10% (sgnificant underestimate)
	yields $9.8 million a year.

	this payment by microsoft is 15 days worth of interest.
	new car at ~$15,000 --> $3.6 million under the same conditions

	chump change for bill.  evern more so for microsoft.
jmb

Annelise Anderson wrote:
> 
> Meanwhile, what is Bill Gates going to do with Apple, assuming that
> Apple probably needs continuing infusions of funds and Microsoft
> therefore has some influence?
> 
> 	--He got some anti-trust protection by keeping them alive
> 	  (by agreeing to produce Mac versions of Excel etc. for 5 years)
> 	--He settled law suits, for an undisclosed sum
> 	--He got access to at least some software....
> 
> But as a long term strategy....
> 
> 	--Rewrite the graphics etc. apps where Apple is the leader
> for Windows (NT, whatever); let Apple struggle, die, get absorbed
> 	--Rewrite the whole operating system to run on Intel &
> compatible hardware, sell both operating systems, both sets of
> software (or the Mac OS as an "add-on" to Windows; automatic 
> installation of both by clicking an icon, of course)
> 
> Idle spectulation.
> 
> 	Annelise
> 
> 
>