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hwrvo@kato.lahabra.chevron.com (W.R. Volz) writes:
>I heard a very faint rumor that the p5 would not be released and they would
>go on to the p6 instead. It makes sense. They are still making a good profit
>on the 486 series, the high end CPU's haven't been cloned yet, they've won
>a court case that makes cloning harder. Why should they release the p5?
>They're making money hand over foot and the competetion can't keep up.
Are you sure this rumor did not originate from a misreading of Mac & IBM Info
Version 1.0? (Now avalable anonymous ftp on sumex-aim.stanford.edu (36.44.0.6)
in the /info-mac/report directory as mac-ibm-compare.txt)
To whit:
"PowerPC   = PowerPC {This is the only CPU to be used by both IBM and
Apple and is planned to run programs from DOS, Windows 3.x, OS/2 and Mac OS 
on top of PowerOpen-AU/X 4.0 [UNIX] and later Taligent OS by using emulators 
or, if necessary, the OSes themselves in a 'shell'-like SoftPC does for DOS 
on the Mac. [Since both the PowerPC and the OS [PowerOpen] for it are a year 
ahead of schedule it could give the Pentium and 68060 chips a run for the 
money.]}"
VaperWare {A collection of rumors from many computer magazines} has said nothing
about the Pentium (p5) not being relieced.  In fact there has been next to
nothing about the chip since the anouncment that "It is to be out in 1st 
quarter 1993 (InfoWorld July 27/92; Vaporware 9/92)."
It would make little sence for Intel to drop the Pentium chip with
Apple puting the PowerPC chip into NuBus cards for its "A-list" developers
and IBM planning to put the PowerPC chip in machine in early 1993
(InfoWorld August 3, 92; Vaporware 9/92; PC Week Dec 7/92, and MacWeek 12/14/92)
This sounds like a misreading of an old version of Mac & IBM info which said
something on the order that the Pentium and 60060 could fail against the 
more robust PowerPC {The present version does not have this line in it.}
because Intel droping the Pentium with the PowerPC already out is total
insanity UNLESS the chip is not working like they promiced.

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