From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Aug 9 09:07:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA29732 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 09:07:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA29725 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 09:07:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt2-149.HiWAAY.net [208.147.148.149]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id LAA25104 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 11:07:17 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nexgen (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nexgen.hiwaay.net (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA08970 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 19:51:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199708090051.TAA08970@nexgen.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. In-reply-to: Message from Annelise Anderson of "Thu, 07 Aug 1997 22:03:28 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 19:51:56 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu said: > Meanwhile, what is Bill Gates going to do with Apple, assuming that > Apple probably needs continuing infusions of funds and Microsoft > therefore has some influence? Think if you look closely, Apple didn't need a paltry $150M any worse than Bill Gates does. While losing money, Apple has been losing their own cash, not borrowed money. MacOS 8 is selling better than expected. Clone and Apple hardware sales are up. Two new generations of PowerPC chips will ship by Christmas. The CHRP PowerPC's are about to ship too. What Microsoft's $150M did was sock the Apple-doomsayer-media in the mouth. Microsoft got a good buy. Apple got more than $150M in good press. Microsoft needs Apple, witness NT, and also look at the performance coming out of PowerPC systems these days vs. Intel. PowerMacs are eating everything else for lunch in the Bovine RC5 crunch at http://rc5.distributed.net. Damn! Still no PowerPC version of FreeBSD? :-) Maybe Rhapsody will be stout enough to port/support everything but FreeBSD's kernel and make a Un*x out of it? Yeah, yeah, wishfull thinking... -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.