Re: Big Text Machine press release

[beta@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Scott Sidley)]

> 
> Well, my feeling on the PowerPC are as above. The 486 has won out and Intel 
> simply has too much of a lead in manufacturing a higher end product for
> a market which is thriving. Motorola doesn't have the capacity ( even though
> as a company they are larger than Intel). They really blew it with the 68k
> line, and as a consequence every cat and his dog is going to run stuff on
> 486's.
> philip@utstat.toronto.edu

Philip,

The 486 as a unix chip will not go over as well as you might think.

and og the 80 million or so pc's only about 15% could possibly run NEXTSTEP.

and I think you'll find that Next's gonna have problems selling Next STEP into
the existing market.

RAM is king in the unix vein and 95% of all PC's made will never have a enough
ram to run any of the new OS's.

Scott Sidley --  root@gnh-tap, beta@gnh-starport, beta@gnh-cathouse