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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scumbria who wrote (101230)	3/31/2000 3:30:00 AM
From: ptanner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572604

Steve: "marry AMD's sledgehammer to Solaris. AMD obtains entry to the server market and Sun precludes Intel from shaping its future." Scumbria: "Another benefit to Sun would be that they would lose their dependence on Sun Microelectronics, which currently threatens to drag them down into oblivion." I have seen similar ideas proposed for Athlon & Apple. It is interesting that the references are not to x86 but almost always to AMD & the Athlon. Like Sun, Apple currently enjoys the profits from its proprietary hardware but is falling behind in the MHz game due to Motorola/IBM. Mac OS X (and the underlying Darwin) should be readily portable to x86... Competition is good and a lot more interesting. PT