Re: Printers/XyWrite 3+/OS2 v3

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I'm sorry to further a topic that had no business on this list
in the first place, but I feel compelled to clarify dumbfounding
misstatements posted to this thread.

	IBM, MOTOROLA SCRAP WINDOWS NT PLAN FOR POWER PC CHIP
	By Laurence Zuckerman        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	NYTimes, 16 December 1996
	(http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/1216blue.html)

"In a move that shows how efforts by IBM and Motorola to
establish a successful competitor to Intel's Pentium computer
chip are flagging, both companies are dropping support for the
Windows NT operating system on computers built around their
Power PC microprocessor.  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

"The decision, which was made last week, leaves Apple Computer's
Macintosh line and its clones as the only high-volume desktop computers
to use the Power PC chip.

"Executives at IBM and Motorola, which joined with Apple
in 1991 to develop the Power PC, cited poor sales of
Windows NT for Power PCs as the reason behind the decision[. ...]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

"`Frankly, the volumes have been very low,' said Bill O'Leary,
a spokesman for IBM's RS6000 division, which sells computers
based on the Power PC. `Most people have come to the conclusion
that NT on Intel is the combination.' [...]
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

"IBM also announced earlier this year that it would soon begin
to sell computer workstations for engineers and scientists that
run Windows NT and are powered by Intel's Pentium Pro chip. [...]

"[T]he Power PC alliance has been plagued by delays, missteps and lack of
coordination among the three partners. [...] Without OS/2, Windows NT was
the Power PC's only chance to gain a wider audience beyond Macintosh and
IBM Unix users. But because of design improvements by Intel, the Power PC
never offered significantly better performance than Intel's Pentium,
which has the advantage of being able to run tens of thousands of
software programs. [...]

"Intel is expected to sell 75 million microprocessors for personal
computers this year, compared with an estimated 4.6 million Power PC
chips sold by IBM and Motorola, according to Dataquest, the market
researchers. [...]"

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