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News of the Weird: Apple stock switches to 8086
Apple’s stock closed the day at $80.86. Aside from the fact that the stock jumped by nearly $5 today, that’s a fairly nondescript number, right? To the non-geek, sure. But in a bizzare twist of irony on the day Apple announced the release of Intel-based Macs, Apple’s stock price reflects the first x86 processor, the Intel 8086.
Apple’s stock has since jumped further in after-hours trading, thus ruining the somehow Zen-like perfection to the stock price.
The writer owns a small share in Apple Computer, Inc., which was not a factor in the writing of this damn near useless article.
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Perhaps it means that Apple will make software that is as good or better than the software that was written well enough to run on an 8086.
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I saw that it had been up 4.81 to 80.86. If it had been five cents less, then it would have gone up 4.86.