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From: ml@sylvia.sylog.se (Mats Luthman)
Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
In-Reply-To: mbundy@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM's message of 20 Dec 1994 08:20:29 -0600
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In article <3d6p7d$1cl@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> mbundy@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Michael Bundy) writes:

   Have any of you noticed how the other CPU manufacturers have stayed silent
   during all of this?  Ever wonder why?  Could they have bugs in their
   processors too?  Doesn't this seem like the perfect time for the PowerPC
   folks to really turn up the heat?  I cannot imagine why they would not...
   Could PowerPC have bugs?  How about MIPS?  Alpha maybe?  

Why do anything when Intel already put themseleves is in such deep shit?
Kicking on Intel after this came out could mean bad publicity for
themselves and wouldn't make the situation much worse for Intel.
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Mats Luthman, Sylog AB
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