16 Sep
1998
16 Sep
'98
5:17 p.m.
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< Mac vs. Windows - who won? Microsoft. Why? Marketing.
Wrong, wrong, wrong! MS won because intel won and several downs
manufacturers of clones won. Mac was a single point product that
was also for much of it's life a closed product. People do like the
appearence of competition so intel boxen did get a little cheaper while
Macs did have like product pressure.
< PowerPC vs. Pentium - who won? Intel. Why? Marketing.
Too little to late.
Allison
16 Sep
16 Sep
9:09 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
9:18 p.m.
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(a)siconic.com
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