Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!pacbell.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!cunews!freenet.carleton.ca!FreeNet.Carleton.CA!af830 From: af830@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Daniel M. Ting) Subject: Re: PowerPC Message-ID: Sender: news@freenet.carleton.ca Reply-To: af830@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Daniel M. Ting) Organization: The National Capital FreeNet References: Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 21:20:55 GMT Lines: 16 In a previous article, smay01@BIGCAT.MISSOURI.EDU ("Scott A. May") says: >I predict the number of native apps for the PowerPC will be relatively >small -- certainly not enough to float an entire platform, and CERTAINLY >not enough to consider dumping Intel. It'll be another NeXT -- an >innovative orphan right out of the box. > I'll have to disagree , In this months WIRED page29 and 31(bill gates on front) it states that IBM will supply its own chips instead of buying them from Intel and has chosen not to produce pentium based designed chips but to base their chips on Apple/Motorola Power PC chip! Power PC doesn't seem to be doing bad if they have IBM following thair lead. (it's a pity about NeXT though :)