Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!stanford.edu!neon.Stanford.EDU!torrie From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: Apple (was Re: Future Acorn products) Message-ID: <1991Jun12.235256.16440@neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 12 Jun 91 23:52:56 GMT References: <8106@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <1991Jun12.014428.288@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <1981@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) Distribution: comp Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA Lines: 16 rcpieter@wsinfo11.info.win.tue.nl (Tiggr) writes: >Gavin.Flower@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Gavin Flower) writes: >I think Apple would go for the RS/6000 instead of the ARM for performace >reasons, but why would they ever have wanted to do anything with ARM Ltd in >the first place? Low cost, low power, portable machines is my guess. You're not going to get an RS/6000 in a 2 kg notebook anytime soon. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu "And in the death, as the last few corpses lay rotting in the slimy thoroughfare, the shutters lifted in inches, high on Poacher's Hill..."