#Conspiracies
You are rubbing a sore spot now when you say:
> Sounds like the ol' 200 mpg carburator story
During the arab oil embargo one of my instructors at a company
training seminar told me he was laid off as an automotive engineer
and took a job teaching but still attended seminars to keep himself
current. He had just returned from one given by Carter Carburator
where they demonstrated something called the Dresserator, a radical
new carurator device. A company in California named Dresser had been
designing nozzles for Nasa rockets but lost thier contract when the
moon program shut down, so they decided to have a go at carbs. He
told me that Carter engineers told him this design could get 40-60
mpg from ordinary V8 american cars. When asked when it would be
released the reply supposedly was to the effect "we bought the
patent, but we have to sell the current design until the warehouses
are empty at a minimum, and probably much longer than that". He was
understandably furious but admitted that he knew of other cases where
more efficient designs were bought and surpressed because they were
not in the best interest of someone somewhere.
This all tells me that it is not so silly to believe that the 68060
could indeed be surpressed if Motorola stood to make more money
selling PowerPC chips to Apple and IBM and the strength of the 68060
CISC chip could embarass their main customers. For what? For the sake
of a relatively small group of buyers making special purpose
computers for the idiot fringe. It is possible the 68060 release is
not in their best interest. alternate: jonest@hfsi.com I never met a
man I didn't like…Will Rogers