Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!news.funet.fi!ngw!news.funet.fi!not-for-mail From: "Scott A. May" Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: PowerPC Date: 26 Mar 1994 09:59:54 +0200 Organization: FUNET-NGW Lines: 13 Sender: daemon@news.funet.fi Distribution: alt Message-ID: Reply-To: "Scott A. May" NNTP-Posting-Host: news.funet.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-Path: <@UCCVMA.UCOP.EDU:smay01@BIGCAT.MISSOURI.EDU> Comments: To: "Daniel M. Ting" Comments: cc: Multiple recipients of list CDROM-L To: CDROM-L Redistribution In-Reply-To: <9403260029.AA15467@bigcat.missouri.edu> On Thu, 24 Mar 1994, Daniel M. Ting wrote: > 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 :) IBM and Intel's feud is legendary (almost as much as IBM vs. Microsoft). No big surprise there. Keep in mind that IBM and Apple have both been losing money, so having IBM behind you isn't exactly comforting. They lost the PC market years ago.