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PowerPC's Bowing Out? (11/29/97)
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Now that the Alpha's out of the way, Intel doesn't have much competition in the processor arena. In fact, the PowerPC is the only serious contender in the desktop market (and many contend that it's not very serious). So it's slightly troubling to read the San Francisco Chronicle describe the PPC's likely slow withering death, following Apple's killing of the clone market.

The Chronicle's take on the whole thing is that Rhapsody, which will run on Intel chips as well as on PPC's, will shrink the chip's demand, while the elimination of Motorola and Power Computing as Mac OS clonemakers futher limits the arena. (We have to take this with a grain of salt: Yes, Rhapsody will run on Intel-- and it'll show everyone just how much faster the PPC's are, when they're not hobbled with a thirteen-year-old OS; and Motorola and Power Computing didn't really add to the number of PPC Mac systems sold, they just spread them around a little bit.)

IBM and Motorola firmly deny the rumors of an imminent shutdown of the Somerset Design Center, where PPC's are designed; they claim they are "very committed to the PowerPC." Time will tell.

 
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The above scene was taken from the 11/29/97 episode:

November 29, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 223: Omega Race for Copland (11/29/97)   As Alice said, "Curiouser and curiouser..." Either German developers Omega have no idea when a joke's gone too far, or they really are working on this legendary COS. It's now a solid two and a half weeks overdue, though the Omega website claims it will ship "as quickly as is possible...

  • 224: No One Is Immune (11/29/97)   Macintouch also pointed us to a Washington Post article about Al Gore's wiredness. All in all, it's nice to see that Number Two not only knows what a computer is, but actually likes to use them. It may, however, be a minor problem that Gore would appear to be addicted to email, sending and receiving over a hundred messages a day.....

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