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- From: jtv@xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen)
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- Subject: Re: But what about PPC
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 96 00:15:11
- Organization: Leiden University, Mathematics & Computer Science, The Netherlands
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- In article <4km152$g32@news.cc.utah.edu> stack@labhp35.cs.utah.edu (Timothy Stack) writes:
- > Now that AT is sold what is going to happen with the PPC project?
- > We're getting so close to the expected release will it still be
- > finished and sold? I've been saving cash for a while so I could
- > be one of the first to get the accel for my 3000, was it all futile?
-
- Fear not. The first PPC accelerators are to be produced by Phase 5 anyway.
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- What's more, migration to PowerPC will be profitable for Viscorp even if they
- wanted AT only to make ITV boxes, as the chips are cheaper. Besides, the
- necessary compilers are already more or less available now so delivering native
- PPC software should be a doddle when the machines come out. All that is needed
- now is the hardware.
-
-
- > Tim Stack
-
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- The Pentium was designed to conquer, not to divide
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