CompuServe Messages

"Apple is the biggest high end customer Moto has." I don't know. Could be. Regardless, Apple is definitely not the tail wagging the Motorola dog. "Apple is the reason Moto was brought in as a way to make up for the loss of the 88K which Apple had commited to buy. They, in effect, "bought off" Moto by getting them the PPC contract." I've read maybe four different versions of how Motorola got into the PPC deal, this being one of them. I've also read it the other way around where Motorola forced Apple to take the PPC deal because Motorola planned no further development of the 680×0 which would have left Apple in deep water viz a viz the planned Intel (at that time) 586. And then there are the really weird stories about IBM . . . <G> I don't pretend to know the realities of it, just that no one is talking about PPC as an Intel killer any more. Of course that might have changed over the past few weeks of Pentimania. <G> "maybe the driver is the one who killed Kennedy" Geez, I coulda told you: Colonel Mustard did it. <G> Jerry