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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (19992)	6/11/1998 5:28:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

What's not to understand Oh, cut it out. The line was, "Apple is no longer giving information to Be on future PowerPC processor design", but Apple doesn't design the PowerPC processor. It's a semantic quibble, who cares. As for Intel vs. Apple on antitrust, what's the point? Apple has as big a share of what as Intel? Who cares what Apple does? Who thinks Apple is important? If Be is going to be anything worth being, it isn't going to be because BeOS runs on Mac hardware. Let it be, I say, just to throw another be in. Be be be. Again, I got nothing against Intel, but Intel has been, you know, moderately heavy handed in the past. Remember those 15 year NDA's on 4meg pages in the Pentium MMU? Is that public knowledge yet, or do we still have to rely on documentation from that well known human parasite, Robert Collins? Who figured it out from the identical MMU in the 8096, publicly documented? And got himself a lot of petty legal harassment for the effort? Of course, mysterious Merced was originally supposed to come out in '97, so the last slip isn't much compared to what came before. And guess what, I actually went out and bought some new (sort of) Intel hardware, I couldn't resist picking up a closeout pr440fx Providence motherboard for $89, built in uw-scsi and 100BT, 2 processor slots, it's nuts. , Not much more expensive than a retail VRM for the 2nd slot in my Micronics w6-li, and cheaper than a uw-scsi card by itself. Next hardware project, that. Got to pick up a couple $100 PPro-180s before they disappear. Cheers, Dan.