All it resulted in was the Mac clone makers stealing market share from
Apple.
larry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 4:51 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: A Winpple PC?
>
>
> You know they already did this years ago, right? Common
> Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP)? PowerPC Platform (PPCP)?
> An industry standard platform that would run Windows, Mac,
> AIX, and Solaris.
>
> I knew a guy running Windows natively on a PowerPC Mac clone box.
>
> It was a done deal and then MS mysteriously pulled out of the
> group and announced they would not release Windows on the
> PPCP. The skinny was that Intel basically grabbed MS by the
> jewels and said "no!".
>
> -Kevin
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > >
> > > If Longhorn runs on Power PC, what need for Intel?
> > >
> > > A domino theory for our day
> > > By Esther Tigre: Wednesday 03 March 2004, 20:02
> > >
> > > IT'S LIKELY that the multi-million OS experiment
> currently known as
> > > Longhorn will also run on Xbox 2s, posing a serious question for
> > > Intel in the future. Whither? Sources claim that Microsoft is
> > > shoehorning faux screenshots of the GUI into the public
> domain, only
> > > to bring out something completely different when the day of the
> > > launch is that much nearer.
> > > Yet if Microsoft decides that Longhorn runs not only on
> > > future Xboxes but on the Power PC platform as well, there's
> > > plenty of room to speculate that the Vole could acquire Apple
> > > and dump Intel, without the antitrust forces getting too excited.
> > > Because Linux currently has more market share than Apple.
> > > The Power PC licence Microsoft has could allow it to take
> > > designs from IBM to Samsung or other big fabrication centres
> > > and play the foundry game to its heart content.
> > > Just the possibility of Microsoft dumping the entire Intel
> > > platform and moving to the Power PC instead must be causing
> > > shivers in Santa Clara, we'd suspect.
> > > The Wintel partnership has survived for a long time, but it
> > > could be that it won't be too long before never the twain
> > > shall meet, again. �
> >
> >
>
>
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