Mike Baker wrote: > > WOULD not make, or COULD not make? >
A very good point. My personal experience with both, Motorola and IBM is that neither of these companies had a "can do" property. Way back in the early 1990's when I was working tech support for Apple and the PPC was just making its entry into the line up, IBM was supposed to come up with a way of making PS-2 (?) compatible with the new PPC chips. Well it never did but Apple with much more limited resources did make its 68xxx machines compatible. That also was the timeframe where IBM was nearly in the same state as GM is in today. A total unflexible unwieldly entity that was virtually paralyzed. IBM has a good sized campus here in Austin and in the late 1990's when I was doing contract work with Applied Materials, I took a short term job with a company that had just bought out IBM's facility for making laptop circuit boards. I was astounded at the condition of the plant and equipement. Something one would expect to find in a third world country. So poorly did this place perform could be illustrated by the fact that an over fifty percent scrap rate was accepted. Turning to Motorola, well their brandy new billion plus chip facility (strictly PPC) was no better. In fact, they might have been worse than IBM as they (as far as I know) hardly produced any G4s. This facility is one of two here in Austin that were spun off and are now know as FreeScale. That's my 5ยข worth... JT --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
