On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, William Donzelli wrote:
> Ummm...when did the PowerPC die? They just got copper interconnects!
They didn't. My point was that it didn't take the world by storm like
they had expected. Intel won the marketing game.
> The things are everywhere, just not on the desktops of many people. The
> PowerPC family of CPUs is widely acknowledged as a sucessful product.
> Beyond PeeCees and PeeCee type servers, Pentiums have little market
> share. PowerPCs can be found in RS/6000s, AS/400s, cars, telecom
> equipment, etc..
I certainly think the PowerPC has life in it yet. The new G3 Macs are
incredible.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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