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- From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik )
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3
- Subject: Re: Total Chaos
- Message-ID: <ksand-070193160738@wintermute.apple.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 00:10:30 GMT
- References: <17835@umd5.umd.edu>
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
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- Organization: (Evil Eye Creature from Mars, Inc.)
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- In article <17835@umd5.umd.edu>, aides@hamlet.umd.edu (Marcus Wilhoit)
- wrote:
- >
- >
- > What in the World is going on? It seems to me that Apple will just
- > become a software
- > company with the advent of the Power PC. Nothing makes any sense? What
- > will be the
- > difference between a PowerPC made by IBM as opposed to one made by Apple?
- > Multi-
- > platform should be multi-GUI either windows or MacOS, the platform will
- > pretty much
- > be the same (the Power PC). NeXT and other companies are also looking at
- > the Power PC chip. Is everyone going with one really fast platform in
- > which the will use something like Bedrock for writting applications?
-
- Hi, things are not that messy, it's just that we don't want to talk
- about products before they are really shipping. Talking about unannounced
- products will just make the situation more messy.
-
- The PowerPC chip will be used for personal, office level computers by
- Apple, and in high end workstations by IBM. This is a nice and clear
- separation, and it's actually a win-win situation for both parts.
-
- PowerOpen is for the 'Open Systems People', while MacOS for PowerPC
- is for the rest of us :-). Another win-win, if you think open systems
- is the way to go, go for PowerOpen. If you like the MacOS environment,
- you got it.
-
- I've been involved in this project for eight months now, and even if I'm
- leaving it due to a new challenge, I must say that things are really
- under control and something wonderful will happen soon.
-
- Cheers,
- Kent
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- Kent Sandvik (UUCP: ....!apple!ksand; INTERNET: ksand@apple.com)
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- Predictions: Soon moving to Newton DTS, bye bye.
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