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To: BillHoo who wrote (9481)	3/14/1998 9:02:00 PM
From: J R KARY	Read Replies (1) of 213174

Bill what a story - I'm still teary eyed but I'll try to answer It is BIG for AAPL to demo it 1st . IBM set this chip to be available in its RS/6000 first , then its AS/400s , eventually its mainframes and will make a lead up announcement Monday . IBM is as altruistic as a hungry lion at meal time yet its act toward AAPL appears almost benevolent , establishing AAPL as a spokesman for its chip . On the Aptiva , if IBM had made OS/2 available on the PowerPC it would have become a competitor of AAPL's PowerPC Mac . IBM just dropped Cyrix from its downsized Aptiva (home PC) line and the absence of a IBM PowerPC Aptiva creates a opportunity for a clever partner AAPL . Must not forget NT is derived from OS/2 and Rhapsody runs well with NT so why not OS/2 . Motorola is not a OS company and may become irrelevant to both IBM and AAPL , except for their application specific PowerPC chips . Incidently one benefit of using a snail in AAPL's advertisement was it was so ugly it got your attention - clean suits are better - burn baby burn ! Jim K.

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