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From: gtoal@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Apple (was Re: Future Acorn products)
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Date: 13 Jun 91 20:19:47 GMT
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In article <1981@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> rcpieter@info.win.tue.nl 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?
:
:Tiggr

1) To provide leverage with Motorola or IBM, whichever it turned out to be.

2) To scupper Acorn who used to be a top-class hardware design company and
are now a second-rate software company. (Nothing personal, guys).  It's
called 'asset-stripping'...

Followups to alt.conspiracy :-)

G