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Re: Lotus Powerbook

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From: Nathan D. Lane
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 05:27
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> 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.)

Just in case anyone cares, Power is:

Performance Optimization With Enhanced Risc

As in the rumored "Power-PC" or "POWER-PC".  I have the first "revision"
of that machine, soon to be obsoleted by a version with 40% more power
for the same price (the IBM RS/6000 Model 220, supplanted [I would imagine]
by the 220H).

Just to make this a part of the client-server group, the application
I am developing is heavily dependent upon a network and is designed
to be scalable to "millions of users/millions of machines" or at least
nationwide here in the US.  It is designed for Title Companies and involves
the imaging of all county recorder's office documents and making them 
avialable to all title companies in a county, and even out of county/state.

-Nathan Lane
Tricon Computer Systems, Inc.
Santa Barbara, CA
nlane@well.sf.ca.us [soon to be nlane@seldon.tricon.com]
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