Re: i5....continues...

I doubt it is not IBM that wants it, because they really have no say in it.
IBM can't stop MS from making Windows run on their processor.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Urbanek, Marty" <Marty_Urbanek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 3:58 PM
Subject: RE: i5....continues...


> Me too (vague recollection of something like that).
>
> I don't, however, see that it would hurt MS to have a PowerPC version
> running on "real" hardware. Remember that Windows Datacenter version they
> had a couple years ago? Also remember Unisys (?) was building a big
machine
> (something 8000?) to run Windows Datacenter version? Never did hear any
more
> about that. My point is that I don't think that MS is expressly tied to
> Intel, especially in the high-end market. Didn't they have a Dec Alpha
> version, too?
>
> I would think it would be a victory of sorts for MS to have big IBM iron
> running their stuff. Maybe it's IBM that doesn't want it.
>
> -Marty