Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 18:23:00 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Jesse Tilly <jtilly@uswebcks.com> Cc: "'freebsd-chat'" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Unix World Jan 1991 - 10 Predictions for the '90s Message-ID: <199912310023.SAA53556@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Jesse Tilly <jtilly@uswebcks.com> of "Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:53:47 EST." <A524F851EA50D311BA4200508B2C4C03DC1200@atldcsexc01.atlanta.usweb.com>
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Jesse Tilly writes: > "Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated" > > The PowerPC is alive and kicking. Not only does it power all Apple > computers (the G3 and G4 are PowerPC generational chips), but they power > IBM's top-o-tha-line RS/6000 workstations. Not to mention successes in the embedded market. Can't find the reference right now but somehow I got the idea Kodak's current digital cameras were PowerPC based. Someone ported an Atari 2600 emulator to the DC-265 and there is a picture of it (and most everything you need to download) playing Donkey Kong: http://members.aol.com/JWSurine/ Next year we'll be hearing a lot from the Apple PowerPC group as MacOS X, the user version, is due out in February, and is recognized as a bona fide BSD derivative. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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