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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Edmond
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1995 00:33
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medcalf@ppc5.svo.dfw.ibm.com (Jeff Medcalf (214) 280-5970 IBM SDO) wrote:
>In article <3vhkof$rmd@spider.lloyd.com>, brobin@spider.lloyd.com (brobin) writes:
>> I agree completely. The PPC has to be a major embarrassment to the 
>> IBM/MOTO/APPLE consortium. With IBM having more PH.D.'s then many
>
>2 million CPUs times about $400 per CPU is about $800 million in revenue.
>Oh yeah, IBM should cry.  Uh huh.  Right.
>

$800 million - (total price of production of PPC) - (total revenues split 
between 2 other parties) - (research dollars put in) - (employee payroll) - 
(taxes and stuff) - (cost of supplies) = ??? 

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Edmond Underwood
Computing & Network Services (University of Colorado)
E-mail:  underwoe@Colorado.Edu
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 5 Aug 1995 00:33:00 GMT
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