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- From: mattc@moaner.sps.mot.com (Matt Costanza)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PPC Chip Was: Walker vs. the $999 7200/75 w/4xCD!
- Date: 5 Apr 1996 03:04:39 GMT
- Organization: Motorola MCTG/MMTG
- Message-ID: <4k22k7$91l@talos4.sps.mot.com>
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- In article <1452.6667T1428T2090@insync.net> lee@insync.net (Lee) writes:
- >>Karl Thomas (kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
- >
- >>: You do realize without Apple, the PPC chip doesn't hae a chance in the
- >>: market, don't you? Motorola and IBM aren't selling as many PowerPC based
- >
- >>Your first statement was correct. Except the realization that it is true
- >>is what has convinced Motorola to throw support at the Amiga, because
- >>while I harbor no ill will towards Apple, they're no longer the bedrock
- >>of stability they once were.
- >
- >>I'd rather see Apple survive than fail, because one more non-Gatesian
- >>system is one more alternative to monopoly. But don't put all of your
- >>eggs in their basket.
- >
- >
- > Motorola agrees. Thats why they ported Win NT over to the PPC, for
- >Microsoft, for FREE! All Microsoft had to do was touch up the IO. Of course,
- >it still won't work on Macs, but I makes a nice server alternative. After all,
- >Intel is way to weak, and Alpha is way to expensive... Motorola is looking for
- >ANY basket to put eggs in, and they will back it up with development.
- >
- The sad, sad, sad, sad, sad, sad, thing about all of this is C= could have
- gotten on this bandwagon of having Motorola port the OS for them. But at the
- time C= was too busy doing other things (like going out of business).
-
- I remember comming to work and speaking to the Risc software engineers about
- this type of project. They would have loved to do it. They got no response
- from C= (Or what was left of C= at the time). If someone would have
- responded, we would now have a version of the AmigaOS running on PowerPC.
-
- Bummer..
-
- Regards,
-
- --
- Matt Costanza
- Motorola Inc - Information Systems
- Network Analyst - Site Networks and Computing
- Mattc@Moaner.Sps.Mot.Com 512.891.6110
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