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From: sjhg9320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (K-29 Brown)
Subject: Re: Apple talking to IBM
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 21:58:19 GMT
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ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr) writes:

>So, is IBM that much ahead in RISC? or is the whole explanation baloney?
>Just curious.

Motorola has had tremendous problems getting its chips out in Market-Sized
Quantities- that's why Sun designed its own SPARC Standard. Motorola owned
the workstation market a few years ago, but their inability to get their
products out the door is rapidly reducing their Market-Share.

(See Xerox and GM for other examples of this disease.)
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