16 Sep
1998
16 Sep
'98
6:09 p.m.
< PowerPC vs. Pentium - who won? Intel. Why?
Marketing.
Too little to late.
Ummm...when did the PowerPC die? They just got copper interconnects!
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 do wish they were better at floating point - compared to Power2, or
even the original Power architecture, the things suck.
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net