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>On 16-Apr-97 Randy Whittle wrote: >>At 12:13 PM 4/15/97 -0700, Don Perley wrote: >>>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 Have they dropped the IBM 586 brand? They were badging those as part of the deal for fabbing the cyrex chips. >Didn't the 8xx thinkpads have PPC processors and run Unix? Yup. Someone said the question is moot thanks to Linux. Not to disparage any inherent qualities of Linux, but I would like a laptop that runs the software with which I make my living. It's available on PPC running AIX, but not Linux. -Don Perley > >-Mike. >-- >mfukatsu@hertz.elee.calpoly.edu >mfukatsu@cymbal.aix.calpoly.edu >http://www.elee.calpoly.edu/~mfukatsu/ > > perley@cadence.com