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

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From: Mahesh Sooriarachchi
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1995 15:40

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In article <3vue7s$m4j@lace.Colorado.EDU> Edmond <underwoe@Colorado.Edu> writes:

Wut what you fail to realize is that the three biggie auto makers have 
standardized on the PPC chip as well.  There are more PPC chips going 
into those autos and industrial machinery than the ppc based computers at 
the moment.

>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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