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To: J R KARY who wrote (6834)	12/15/1997 1:20:00 AM
From: Marc Newman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213173

<<Application comparisons are the ultimate "proof of the pudding" and with MSFT Office available to both platforms AAPL should "have at it" ASAP.>> Amen. Remember, Apple is supposed to release the "Coming to get you, suckah!" Ali ads early in the new year. Eric, thanks for the CompUSA sales update. I'm collecting all the anecdotal sales info I can to try to get a feeling as to what the buzz is. I'm very annoyed about the total amount of shares Power got. When the deal was announced AAPL was trading above $20. I thought it would be five million shares, max. Seems like Steve Jobs can not only con Apple into paying $430 mil for NeXT, but overpay for Power as well. Or at least that's what I thought. Then I read this: austin360.com Man, Jobs is the man! Though if he knew how much trouble Power was in he probably could have paid even less . . . Marc

To: J R KARY who wrote (6834)	12/15/1997 2:48:00 AM
From: Eric Yang	Respond to of 213173

>>AAPL's chip is 64 bit RISC based whereas INTC's is 32 bit CISC . << Jim, actually the only PPC chip that has 64-bit implementation is PPC 620 which were use by Bull and IBM in some projects. All other PPC used in Macs are 32-bit implementations of the PowerPC design. Eventhough we all assume that PowerPC is a RISC chip, PowerPC actually has a very large number (100+) of instructions in its instructions set. Most other RISC chips supports only 30-50 simple instructions. PowerPC is kind of like a freak of nature. It's a very powerful design that uses the RISC architecture (in terms of pipeline, branch prediction...etc), and yet its complexity defies the fundamental RISC philosophy. PPC 620 project had some trouble a couple years back. I think they're back on track now. The performance of today's 604e easily surpassed the earlier 620s. Of course the 620 was designed for server applications so some of its strengths are not readily apparent if we just look at SPECint and SPECfp benchmarks. Eric