PPC->IBM Compatable? -- Any relation?

[Hallock]

I've heard prople talking like the Macintosh Power PC is revolutionary
because it can read IBM formatted disks? I know that this technology has
been in use way longer than the invention of the power PC, I can do it on
my 605.
Where did this false idea origionate and why?

c.ha...@mail.utexas.edu

[Clark]

In article <c.hallock-121...@slip-32-16.ots.utexas.edu>,
c.ha...@mail.utexas.edu (Hallock) wrote:

Usually the phrase "IBM compatible" refers to either a PowerPC mac running
Softwindows, a software Windows 3.11 emulator, or a mac, either a 640 or
6100 series, with a 486dx intel processor on a PDS card. With either of
these setups you can run all Windows programs, even if it is very, very
slow under Softwindows.
You can do the same thing with your 605 by installing Softwindows, but if
Softwindows is slow on a PPC, imagine how slow it is on a slow 040...

[Jimin Sun]

In <c.hallock-121...@slip-32-16.ots.utexas.edu> c.ha...@mail.utexas.edu (Hallock) writes:

>I've heard prople talking like the Macintosh Power PC is revolutionary
>because it can read IBM formatted disks? I know that this technology has
>been in use way longer than the invention of the power PC, I can do it on
>my 605.
>Where did this false idea origionate and why?

>c.ha...@mail.utexas.edu

Hi. I think what happened was....
PowerPC is the name of the processor that is made by Apple, IBM, and
Motorola. The chip is revolutionary because not only the chip is made by
the huge three leading companies in personal computer market, but also it
has RISC architecture, and fast.
Being able to read IBM formatted disks is a part of PowerPC chip,
but it is not true that PowerPC chip is revolutionary just because it can
read IBM formatted disks.
The idea probably came from the fact that the PowerPC chip was made
by Apple, IBM, and Motorola, and IBM is going to make a PowerPC based
computers, I guess.

Stay Away from Windows! The weather is getting tough.

Sincerely,
Jimi
js0...@uhura.cc.rochester.edu

[Cathy Mancus]

In article <1995Nov15.1...@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, js0...@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jimin Sun) writes:
> PowerPC is the name of the processor that is made by Apple, IBM, and
> Motorola. The chip is revolutionary because not only the chip is made by
> the huge three leading companies in personal computer market, but also it

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> has RISC architecture, and fast.

Really? Intel, Microsoft, and Apple?

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