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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 > Visit the on-line Midrange Developer forum at: http://www.rpgiv.com > > _______________________________________________ > This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list > To post a message email: RPG400-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/rpg400-l > or email: RPG400-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
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