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In <3vj22i$g9r@booch.legent.com> tom@thunder.uucp (Tom Roehl) writes:

>In article <3vhe3g$fi2@newsbf02.news.aol.com> donrawlins@aol.com (DonRawlins) writes:
>>Dan Pop writes...
>>...  The PPC601 was a flop.  And a big reason is poor performance.  
>
>But don't forget, that the the 601 chip was never meant or designed to be the intel-killer
>chip.  It's main purpose and design goal was to be a transitional chip which would allow
>Mac users to move quickly to a RISC architecture. Keeping that goal in mind, the 601 chip
>was a HUGE success.

I'm affraid you're building some kind of virtual reality.  The first system
built and sold with the 601 was the IBM RS 6000/250, released near the
end of 1993, many months before the PMac.  I doubt that IBM intended to
allow the Mac users to move quickly to a Unix only RISC platform :-)

The performance of the 601 is very near of the performance of the Pentium
(a CISC design).  Both chips were designed and released about at the same
time.

Dan
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