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- From: jerry@arlut.utexas.edu (Jerry Heyman)
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- Subject: Re: Mentioned in PC Mag
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 18:11:05 GMT
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- Robert S. Iacullo (eagle@serv.net) wrote:
- : > This is *very* unlikely, since Apple is the biggest buyer of IBM's
- : > PowerPC processors. I might believe it if the post had said "MS and
- : > Intel".
-
- : Everything I have heard and read is that if anything it is Motorola's
- : PowerPC.
-
- History check. IBM produced the POWER Architecture. It was orignally
- a multi-chip implimentation. Motorola and IBM entered a deal that was
- of benefit to both companies - IBM needed Motorola's ability to be a
- merchant chip manufacturer and their knowledge of single chip CPUs,
- Motorola needed a RISC processor because the 88K wasn't the solution and
- they were losing ground to Intel in big leaps and bounds. Apple got
- involved because they were Motorola's biggest CPU customer. All three
- got together and created the Somerset research center (located in Austin, TX).
- The end result of the collaboration was the PowerPC processor.
-
- IBM was the sole manufacturer of the 601, and now both Motorola and IBM
- manufacture the 603/604 chips...
-
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