Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!apple!uokmax!munnari.oz.au!bruce!goanna!minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au!otto!t891368 From: t891368@otto.bf.rmit.oz.au (Mark) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: Apple (was Re: Future Acorn products) Message-ID: Date: 17 Jun 91 03:23:38 GMT References: <8106@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <1991Jun12.014428.288@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <1981@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> <1991Jun12.235256.16440@neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: usenet@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Njuiz noveles nova newes) Distribution: comp Organization: Faculty of Business, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 14 >>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? I heard rumours that Apple was purchasing ARM chips like they were going out of style. It was thought at the time they were going to produce either a motherboard of some sort utilising the ARM's or a card to go into a Mac. They might be looking at something like Olivetti was: including the chip inside a laser printer. Mark mark@otto.bf.rmit.oz.au