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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (19990)	6/11/1998 12:41:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

I don't understand this one, Eric. Additionally, Apple is no longer giving information to Be on future PowerPC processor design, meaning that the company will not be able to produce a version for new Macs within a year's time. Not that I'd say it's untrue, but PowerPC is an IBM design, going back to the roots of RISC, not Apple's. Of course, there are other pieces to the Mac hardware puzzle besides the processor, which is probably what's being referred to. So, BeOS won't run on a Mac, nothing much besides MacOS ever has, the hardware isn't usually cost competitive, and Apple has never been generous with the hardware specs either. Meanwhile, Rhapsody is who knows where, it'll probably come out about the same time as NT2k. Jobs got his money out of that deal, anyway. As I've said before, I've never liked Apple that much. Intel, you guys got good engineering, though it looks like mysterious Merced may be trailing NT2k again. On a related (but off topic to this thread, who cares) note, this just in: PowerPC chip venture ends news.com Motorola and IBM said that they will continue to cooperate on future PowerPC chip designs and that they will continue to compete for sales to Apple Computer, currently the only volume customer using the PowerPC processor in a desktop computer. However, both are focusing not on the market for desktop chips, but for less glamorous embedded chips Which may be fine for BeOS, if not Apple. Cheers, Dan. P.S. Have you run IE for HP yet? Did it come in under 40meg?