RE: The status quo and the future...

Bob,

How many people do you know that have modern PowerPC hardware at home ?

What is the marketshare of Intel versus PowerPC ?

I guess in Europe it is about 95% to 5% (optimistic guess... we're not so
Apple minded in education as the US).

BTW, M$ has dropped its support for PowerPC some time ago (I doubt if there
has ever been much choice regarding PowerPC PCs... since a PowerMac couldn't
run the M$ PowerPC version).

Kind regards,
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Cozzi (RPGIV) [mailto:cozzi@rpgiv.com]
Sent: 11 March, 2002 16:34
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: The status quo and the future...


What is this idea of OS/400 running on Intel? I hear Dr. Frank mention
that they looked into it a few years ago, and that it would cost X to
port it. I think the number was either $20 million or $50 million to do
it.

But PowerPC is so much better than Pentium. Why do it?
Why not just work with Microsoft and have them port Windows to PowerPC.
Then IBM could make PowerPC-based Thinkpads and the things might
actually perform. Of course they would also have to offer an OS/400
version for these new ThinkPads.

That would put everything on PowerPC, iMac is already PowerPC based. In
fact, the new Power Mac G4 has dual 1Ghz PowerPC G4 CPUs in them. That's
more power than virtually every AS/400 and most iSeries boxes out there!

Bob Cozzi
cozzi@rpgiv.com
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