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To: Robert Boylin who wrote (23693)	3/26/1999 9:16:00 PM
From: soup	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213176

OSX makes Mac-users smile. Had a customer tell me he had OSX running on a G3 with 512MB RAM: "I'm running 8.5/Blue Box on a RAM Disk. It flies! It's the first time in years that a MacOS has got me smiling from ear-to-ear!" Tekserve has also replaced its dozens of workbench drives with OSX Server. We now use it to netboot CPUs, backup data and perform OS installs. My boss David had a ball showing it to me. ------------ PS> Am having marginal success selling Tangerine iMacs by telling customers that they're really copper-colored but Apple mandated a fruity name. :)

To: Robert Boylin who wrote (23693)	3/29/1999 2:31:00 PM
From: Richard Habib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

Robert, I was careful to note Merced and it's follow-on program by which I was indicating McKinley. Robert, the Mac bias news/comments sites are for the most part very bad when discussing chip tech incl PPC programs. I would rely more on things like EE times, etc. All the major Risc players are onboard the HWP-Intel EPIC program and I think it would be foolish to take a strong bet against it's future success. As for emulation, Robert, last I looked no one had definitive knowledge as to how the HWP-Intel EPIC program was going to tackle that. Since Merced is a very expensive chip meant to go into $15K systems and up it's been surmised that backward compatibility would be assured by an X86 chip onboard. Relatively speaking it would add very little to the cost of these expensive systems. I stand by my previous comments that IBM is likely going to develop both it's 64 bit PPC program and the EPIC program. If the EPIC program offers better performance and overhead, I think you will see the EPIC program gaining the majority of IBMs 64 bit resources. The same is true for the other RISC boxmakers, SUN, SGI, Siemans, CPQ, Etc.