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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: 22 Dec 1994 22:40:30 GMT
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
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 mbundy@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Michael Bundy) writes:

>Have any of you noticed how the other CPU manufacturers have stayed silent
>during all of this?  Ever wonder why?  Could they have bugs in their
>processors too?  Doesn't this seem like the perfect time for the PowerPC
>folks to really turn up the heat?  I cannot imagine why they would not...
>Could PowerPC have bugs?  How about MIPS?  Alpha maybe?  

Since Alpha is built buy Digital and Digital makes big bucks selling
Pentiums...

Robert Morphis

>Michael B. Bundy                                  mbundy@neosoft.com