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> >The PowerPC architecture is dead dead dead.  It just doesn't know it
> >yet.
> 
> I disagree, as long as RS/6000 is IBM's server platform, PowerPC will
> survive.  And it isn't that bad actually...

I agree with Poul.  I rather like the PPC.  For one thing, it has
a sane byte order.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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