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- From: bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB)
- Subject: Re: Pentium to be Scrapped?!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.114342.16953@nmsu.edu>
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- Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 11:43:42 GMT
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- hwrvo@kato.lahabra.chevron.com (W.R. Volz) writes:
- >I heard a very faint rumor that the p5 would not be released and they would
- >go on to the p6 instead. It makes sense. They are still making a good profit
- >on the 486 series, the high end CPU's haven't been cloned yet, they've won
- >a court case that makes cloning harder. Why should they release the p5?
- >They're making money hand over foot and the competetion can't keep up.
- Are you sure this rumor did not originate from a misreading of Mac & IBM Info
- Version 1.0? (Now avalable anonymous ftp on sumex-aim.stanford.edu (36.44.0.6)
- in the /info-mac/report directory as mac-ibm-compare.txt)
- To whit:
- "PowerPC = PowerPC {This is the only CPU to be used by both IBM and
- Apple and is planned to run programs from DOS, Windows 3.x, OS/2 and Mac OS
- on top of PowerOpen-AU/X 4.0 [UNIX] and later Taligent OS by using emulators
- or, if necessary, the OSes themselves in a 'shell'-like SoftPC does for DOS
- on the Mac. [Since both the PowerPC and the OS [PowerOpen] for it are a year
- ahead of schedule it could give the Pentium and 68060 chips a run for the
- money.]}"
- VaperWare {A collection of rumors from many computer magazines} has said nothing
- about the Pentium (p5) not being relieced. In fact there has been next to
- nothing about the chip since the anouncment that "It is to be out in 1st
- quarter 1993 (InfoWorld July 27/92; Vaporware 9/92)."
- It would make little sence for Intel to drop the Pentium chip with
- Apple puting the PowerPC chip into NuBus cards for its "A-list" developers
- and IBM planning to put the PowerPC chip in machine in early 1993
- (InfoWorld August 3, 92; Vaporware 9/92; PC Week Dec 7/92, and MacWeek 12/14/92)
- This sounds like a misreading of an old version of Mac & IBM info which said
- something on the order that the Pentium and 60060 could fail against the
- more robust PowerPC {The present version does not have this line in it.}
- because Intel droping the Pentium with the PowerPC already out is total
- insanity UNLESS the chip is not working like they promiced.
-
- "Eliminate the impossible and what ever remains, no matter how improbable,
- is the truth" -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle through Sherlock Holmes in The
- Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier, Sign
- of Four and The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans.
-