Re: Lotus Powerbook

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From: Craig Dowell
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 23:24

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In article <1992Oct9.164055.11341@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
>In article <Bvtx14.60I@comp.vuw.ac.nz>, Gavin.Flower@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Gavin Flower) writes:
>>
>> Not to mention POWER is the code name for the project to develop a
>> portable workstation for the European education market, headed by
>> Acorn Computers, based on a new ARM chipset...
>
>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.)
>Hence the PowerPC initiative with Motorola and Apple, to pack all that
>functionality onto one chip, so it's fit to use in a PC instead of a UNIX
>box.

Yeah, it's Performance Optimized With Enhanced Risc as I recall.  Pretty
lame, eh?

-- Craig

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From: craigdo@microsoft.com (Craig Dowell)
Subject: Re: Lotus Powerbook
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Date: 09 Oct 92 23:24:21 GMT
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