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- From: mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca (Reg Martin)
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
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- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 00:45:22 GMT
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- UNREGISTERED VERSION (larrymb@gramercy.ios.com) wrote:
- : > It can't be done without _MAJOR_ money, which AT and Escom don't
- : >have.
- : The original chipset team didn't have all that tremendously much money.
- : And if AT can't afford to do a good chipset then they should have never
- : bothered to go to the auction for CBM. I wish the auctionhad proceeded faster
- : so that the IBM/CEI team could have won.
-
- Okay, do you REMEMBER 1985!? It was a pretty different world than the one
- we live in today... People cannot rely on the "well they did it 10 years
- ago" way of thinking, since the 80s home computer market is totally
- incomparable to the market of today.
- AGA was certainly not the reason to be buying CBM. It was outdated before
- it was ever released...
-
- Reg Martin
-