Subject: Re: When will the YDL 2.2 iso be available for FTP download?
From: Eric D. (liriodendron@mac.com)
Date: Tue Mar 19 2002 - 15:36:37 MST
on 19/3/02 14:35, Robert Brandtjen at rob@prometheusmedia.com wrote:
> On Monday 18 March 2002 11:49 pm, Pat Plummer wrote:
>> Yeah, well, my emotional bias is toward the PPC chip and this is a PPC
>> based distro/list :). Sorry ...
>
> I too once believed in the power of the PPC platform -only to see it's early
> triumphs over intel slowly undermined to the point where it could barley hold
> it's head up - sorry, but this is just too true. I believe it is mostly due
> to a Jobs-IBM fallout - Motorola is not IBM, IBM demoed a working 1GHZ G3
> chip at macworld in 1998 - whatever happened to it? It took motorola nearly 4
> years to reach that speed with the G4.
Probably because within Motorola they put very little stock in R&D on the
PPC. I know someone (name will not be provided (and, no I'm not making this
up) ;) (fairly well up on things PPC in Motorola because of her technical
skills in trouble-shooting) who transferred out of the R&D dep't for PPC
because she saw no future in it -- other people are apparently doing the
same (also, their department wasn't getting any money even though they
provided support for production teams).
Unless IBM can pick up the slack, Apple may have to consider becoming an
Intel-based OS (although, they'd never survive with the hodge-podge that is
called Intel-based PC).
Eric.
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