2009/7/7 Bruce Johnson <[email protected]>: > > > On Jul 7, 2009, at 7:10 AM, Liam Proven wrote: > >> IBM had problems? Not as I recall. POWER was doing great. PowerPC was >> merely an adaptation of the high-end POWER multi-chip processors into >> a lower-end single-chip device utilising the Motorola 88000 bus, >> designed for PC-type kit. > > > IBM never managed a low power G5, and Moro couldn't get more > performance outof the PPC series. Apple (along with all the other PC > manufacturers) live and die by their laptop lines, and the inability > of either Moto or IBM to deliver low power, high performance chips > suited for laptops was strangling Apple there.
I presume that the first "Moro" = "Moto"? Well, the thing is, there I was talking about the genesis of the PowerPC in the early 1990s and you're talking about its effective end in the mid-noughties. The problems that caused its creation were unrelated to those that caused its demise. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
