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- From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik )
- Subject: Re: Re2: * Takeover Proposal *
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- Message-ID: <ksand-271292160118@wintermute.apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 00:04:14 GMT
- References: <725330059.1285881@AppleLink.Apple.COM> <1992Dec26.022347.9730@netcom.com>
- Organization: (Evil Eye Creature from Mars, Inc.)
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- In article <1992Dec26.022347.9730@netcom.com>, nagle@netcom.com (John
- Nagle) wrote:
- > It's almost as if Apple were killing off the Mac, like they
- > killed off the Lisa. Is Scully really betting the company on
- > Power PC, the "strategic alliance" with IBM, and "personal digital
- > assistants"? Some published interviews indicate that he is thinking
- > along those lines.
-
- Well, I've been involved with PowerPC for a long time, and the
- platform will run existing binaries in emulation mode (quite well
- and fast based on the current tests we've done), as well
- as have a new native API that is a refinement of the current one so
- there's not a lot of work concerning a port to PowerPC.
-
- I just wanted to tone down the idea that our switch to PowerPC will
- somehow obsolete the current and future application base. In other
- words expect the Mac to be alive for another 10-20 years or more.
-
- Cheers,
- Kent
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