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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (58212)5/15/1999 1:52:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) of 1572002
 
Ten,

PowerPC had a few problems, including:

1. The instruction set architecture stinks.
2. The implementations were very low MHz.
3. Apple was unable to port the Mac kernel over to native PPC.
4. The instruction set architecture was not compatible with x86.
5. IBM thrashed for years over OS/2 vs. NT.
6. The companies involved didn't communicate.
7. Intel figured out how to build a superscalar x86 chip (Pentium.)

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