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Re: Future Think Pads
On 16-Apr-97 Randy Whittle wrote:
>At 12:13 PM 4/15/97 -0700, Don Perley wrote:
[snip]
>>
>>I guess that means we can kiss off any notion of alternate CPU's
>>like PPC, Cyrex, AMD.
>
> You didn't seriously think IBM was going to use anything but, did you?
>
> They're a premium brand--they'll use premium brand parts. The only
>exception to Intel chips in the ThinkPad line was IBM's own
>licensed-from-Intel chip
Didn't the 8xx thinkpads have PPC processors and run Unix?
-Mike.
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