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To: Alomex who wrote (14211)	6/1/1998 6:42:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Respond to of 213177

<<Once again Apple finds itself in posession of advanced technology. Will the market the hell out of it or blow it away? Will MacOS X be shipped ASAP or will they try to add the latest and greatest (like copland) and never ship?>> Despite the recent flexibility of Apple's strategies, I fear it may still be sluggish to take action. -Bill_H

To: Alomex who wrote (14211)	6/1/1998 10:18:00 PM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

Alomex, re: In fact if I was microsoft, I'd start porting NT 5.0 to PowerPCs ASAP, to hedge my bets. Microsoft is supporting 64 bit Windows NT on Alpha to hedge its bets. Alpha will take up the Merced slack. In fact, if you are a true Apple fan, and you expect the PowerPC to be powerful enough to be a differentiating product, you certainly would hope that MS would not port NT to the PowerPC. In such a case, Apple would loose its leverage in selling OS X. What you should hope for is application support (such as MS Office) from MS for OS X. Pravin.

To: Alomex who wrote (14211)	6/2/1998 12:45:00 AM
From: Richard Habib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

Boy I get tired of posting this. Merced is for $20K+ machines. Just for example a 250 Mhz 64 bit Sun/SGI machine sells for about $19K. Merced is to debut at about 600 Mhz 64bit. Apple doesn't have anything to compare with this. This has always been Unix territory. If Apple were interested in this market why didn't they do something years ago. The big silicon boys, Sun and SGI among others have always been there. Merced is simply the Intel-HP entry into this market and is significant because Intel has never played here before. Rich