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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 95 16:14:42 -0400 From: dewar@GNAT.CS.NYU.EDU (Robert Dewar) "What about the PowerPC? IBM claims they will have PowerPC ThinkPads out before the end of the year." The question is: will they have any interesting software requiring a PowerPC. Also will there be a Linux for PowerPC by then? I didn't claim that PowerPC ThinkPads were interesting. But the original question was, what could IBM have up their sleeves that was sufficiently new that it might justify that kind of promotion? It seems to me that, from IBM's point of view, this might qualify. Unfortunately, while these computers should be out sometime in late summer, it will probably be next year before they are useful. IBM is likely to shoot itself in the foot again, waiting around for OS/2 and NT to be ported to this architecture, supposedly late this year, with NT released a few months before OS/2. And then another year or so to flush out the bugs in both of them. Meanwhile all they have to offer is AIX, which won't sell many of those machines.