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The Power game (was Re: Lotus Powerbook)

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From: Evan Torrie
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 18:10
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ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:

>Funny, I thought POWER was the acronym IBM used to refer to the CPU
>architecture in the RS/6000. (No, I can't remember what it stands for.)

  Something like Performance Optimisation With Enhanced Risc.

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