Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Mac OS Message-ID: Date: 20 Jun 91 17:41:27 GMT References: <56352@nigel.ee.udel.edu><9106161209.27@rmkhome.UUCP> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 34 rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes: >In article <56352@nigel.ee.udel.edu> jleonard@pica.army.mil writes: >>In article rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) wr >>>There was a blurb on CNN Headline News yesterday about IBM and Apple having >>>secret meetings, and that Apple will be porting the Mac OS over to the IBM >>>PS/2, etc, etc, etc.. >> >>It sounds like IBM is playing headgames with Microsoft. > >According to BusinessWeek of June 24, 1991: > >1. Apple would get the RS/6000 chip set. > >2. IBM would get a new Apple OS code-named "Pink", which could easily run > on Apple and IBM machines. > >3. Motorola would produce RS/6000 chips for Apple, and become a second > source supplier to IBM. > Sounds like a sweetheart deal...But will Pink run on low end machines? This is very vauge though... You said RS/6000 chip set...Is it one chip, or many? -- C-UseNet V0.42e Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) Somewhere, out there in space, is the doomsday rock. It traveling at 16 miles per second towards earth, and it will collide, someday, experts say. If you don't support Dan Quayle and the Space Program, we're all doomed! And I was worried about the Sun going out to lunch.....