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In article <40bv8d$aac@gandalf.pic.net>, fishbowl@fishbowl.pic.net (James
L. McGill) wrote:

> In article <Uhb9mq9V5MoM075yn@oslonett.no> you write:
> >
> >I bet no-one have seen so many paranoid people since the 70's...
> >"Fingerprint File" by The Rolling Stones suddenly got a new potentional
> >target group.
> >
> 
> And... Has the motorola CEO asked for the head of the one who
> announced to the world that Motorola uses Intel-based machines?  
> 
>   I, for one, am SHOCKED and APPALLED and even DISGUSTED.
> 
>   After all, this is M-O-T-O-R-O-L-A, the maker of the 68* machines.
>   What are they doing, running WINDOWS?  This news ruined my day.
>   If that's not the end of the Unix culture, I do not know what is.

Well, I can't speak for Motorola, but what I have observed as an employee
here is that they use -far- more Macs than Intel boxes. Like a 400 to 1
ratio or thereabouts, at least in my area. The Intel boxes I've seen are
largely attached to factory hardware like test equipment, where the vendor
that made the machine provided it as a dedicated controller or dedicated
data aquisition system. Sometimes an Intel box is used to run specialized
software that won't run on anything else, 'cause the developers of the
software only wrote it for PC's. Can't avoid the darned Intel boxes
sometimes. Guess they are OK as data collection tools. Wouldn't have one
on my desk.

Relax. From what I see, Macs still rule at Motorola.

Can't comment on the truth or falsehood of Moto Canada's reported Ban on
Windows '95, nor on what Windows '95 does or doesn't do so far as being a
security risk. I have no facts on those points -- yet. I'm on-line trying
to get some facts right now myself. Don't know that I'll find them here,
but I'm looking in several places.

JB