RE: The status quo and the future...

Paul,


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

Few, very few. But most companies are only interested in people that are
willing to spend money. By changing the platform, you cause a world of
people to consider your alternative platform (i.e., PowerPC) for their
next upgrade/replacement system.  The carrot is that it is a better
platform, the stick is that it would be _the_ upgrade path from Pentium.

This was more of a wish-list/fantasy statement than a pragmatic
statement.

Bob


>
> 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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