Re: Apple's ways

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Supertimer" <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
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> I have wondered about that myself.  With Motorola, it is kind of
> like this big company with a name made of gold...if you think
> of cell phones and pagers.  But the better parts of the company
> are kind of dragging this dead weight around.  If AMD bought
> Motorola's chip division, it could be the set-up for Apple's
> transition to x86.  If IBM did, then the PowerPC chip may have
> a future.  IBM would certainly be more likely to preserve the
> chip as is but AMD might be better for the future of the Mac.

IBM has a vested interest in the PowerPC architecture. Namely
it is called the Power 3 chip. There is a machine out there with
hundreds of Power 3 chips which can do 10 terra FLOPS. Talk
about super computing. And of course only IBM makes those
Power 3 chips.
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