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DonRawlins (donrawlins@aol.com) spewed forth the following profound insight:

==> The 601 is a failure.  Apple lost market share and few IBM PPC machines
==> were sold outsold of niche workstation markets.  Some noteworthy
==> journalists have even gone so far as to declare the PPC6xx architecture
==> "dead".

    Hmmm, don't read as much as I should.  Which "noteworthy journalists"
    are you talking about??

==> The most optimistic concede defeat in 1994 but claim the Power
==> architecture may still have hope to become mainstream in late 1995 and
==> 1996; an opinion that is more wishful thinking than prudent judgement.

    If the "most optimistic concede defeat" then who the Hell are we?

==> How could that >not< be characterized as a failure?  

    Easily - just don't post blatant lies.  Or at least don't believe them.

==> And the P6 is looming
==> right around the corner with Spec performance pushing through the 200 mark
==> on both integer and floating point.  That annhilates the 601 and seriously
==> challenges the 604 and 620.

    And then Jesus will come down and damn all you Mac Heathen to HELL!!!!
    
    Dude, don't post vapor.  Brag all about the Spec performances of the P6
    when you have them.  Wasn't youse Intel types trashing IBM for claiming
    the same high Specmarks for the PPC?

==> The 386 instruction set will live long and prosper as a standard.  

    Blech.  Look, I'd honestly take to heart your belief that the ball of
    masking tape and Bubble Yum commonly referred to as the Intel chip is
    significantly better than these incredibly wimpy 133Mhz PowerPC 604's,

    and that there is somewhere out there a universe in which the PPC has
    been soundly trounced by Intel and that we're all "admitting defeat";

    but if you really know about what's good and bad when choosing a 
    computer system/operating system/etc, why the Hell are you posting from
    AOL???  Has it gotten so lonely on your planet that you decided to take
    up molesting little boys as a hobby?

    Sorry if this offends you, "Don" -- you'll just have to Killfile me.
    Oh wait, I forgot!  YOU CAN'T!!  Ghod, what was I thinking?
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