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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 09:52:29 -0700
From: Robert Clark <ROBERTC@PII.COM>
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Now we know which end of the egg Terry eats first.

So will we be able to run OS/2 on our PowerPC, connected to the
nearest MAU through a Micro-Channel card?

Go Big Blue!

						[RC]

>>> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> 08/15/97 08:49am >>>
> >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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