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- =============================<<<POWERPC NEWS>>>=========================
- The Electronic News Magazine for the Internet
- *** April 29th, 1994: Vol. 1, No.4 ***
-
- A distinctly embedded theme runs through this issue, thanks to the
- Embedded Systems Conference East in Boston last week, so good news for
- those of you who want a 32-bit, PowerPC-based washing machine. Note also
- that we have changed the numbering of the native software library; it
- now begins at story number 4400. Apologies to anyone who had
- difficulties with software downloads last week - we initially encoded
- the files with BinHex 5 rather than BinHex 4, however
- everything is now sorted
- -- Chris Rose, Editor: chrisr@cix.compulink.co.uk
-
- _________________________ IN THIS ISSUE ____________________________
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- | 3010) WORKPLACE OS: A MACHINE WITH MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES |
- | 1039) POWERPC 604: A LOOK UNDER THE HOOD & AT THE FUTURE |
- | 3011) IBM AND MOTOROLA'S EMBEDDED PROCESSOR STRATEGIES |
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- ==== POWERPC NEWS: (use story no. 1999 to retrieve whole section) =====
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- 1036) HITACHI TAKES POWERPC AND IS EXPECTED TO JOIN POWEROPEN......(277)
- Hitachi Ltd has struck a deal with IBM to take its POWERParallel
- servers and discussions include whether the Japanese giant should
- fabricate PowerPC chips.
- 1037) NOVELL TO PUT NATIVE NETWARE ON APPLE SERVERS............... (372)
- Novell says that it will port its Netware NOS to Apple's PowerPC
- servers. It could be just what Apple needs to crack the corporates.
- 1038) IBM AND MOTOROLA ANNOUNCE EMBEDDED POWERPC COMPETITORS.......(513)
- IBM and Motorola have officially announced the first two PowerPC
- variants that don't come out of the joint Somerset facility - the
- PPC403GA and the RMCU 505 are aimed at embedded market.
- 1039) POWERPC 604: A LOOK UNDER THE HOOD, & A LOOK AT THE FUTURE..(1325)
- A look in more detail at the architectural goings-on inside IBM's and
- Motorola's new baby
- -o-
- 1040) ACER SAYS THAT IT IS *NOT* BUILDING POWERPC MACHINES.........(144)
- 1041) POWEROPEN DEVELOPERS' CONFERENCE CANNED AS ABI/APIS RELEASED.(228)
- 1042) APPLE SHOWS POWERPC SERVERS - US SHIPMENT SET FOR MAY........(260)
- 1043) 145,000 POWER MACS SHIP, BUT APPLE SALES FIGURES DISAPPOINT..(275)
- 1044) IBM MAY DECIDE TO MERGE POWER AND POWERPC NAMES..............(180)
- 1045) KENDALL SQUARE PLANNING TO USE POWERPC SAYS UNIGRAM.X........(172)
- 1046) EMBEDDED ABI FINAL DRAFTS ABOUT ONE MONTH AWAY...............(174)
- 1047) CHORUS WILL HAVE EMBEDDED MICROKERNEL READY NEXT MONTH.......(182)
- 1048) APPLE, DATA GENERAL AND SEQUENT IN DISCUSSIONS WITH BULL?....(157)
- 1049) MOTOROLA 88120 RISC UNLIKELY - CUSTOMERS WEREN'T INTERESTED...(83)
- 1050) POWER MACINTOSH USERS 'CLOCK-UP' TO GET SPEED INCREASES......(210)
-
- ===== COMPUTERWIRE:(use story no. 2999 to retrieve whole section) ======
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- 2023) MOTOROLA PLANS TO SAMPLE THE 68060 NEXT QUARTER..............(250)
- 2024) INTEL TO BUILD NEW P6/P7 PLANT IN ARIZONA....................(177)
- 2025) IBM SPRINGS PLEASANT SURPRISE AS Q1 PROFITS BEAT FORECAST....(565)
- 2026) DEC REPORTS STUNNING $185M LOSS - LUCENTE IS 1ST CASUALTY....(389)
- 2027) COMPAQ EXPANDS ALL PLANTS TO MEET SURGING DEMAND.............(196)
- 2028) CLIENT-SERVER MORE COSTLY THAN MAINFRAME COMPUTING: GARTNER..(459)
- 2029) MICROSOFT CLIMBS DOWN OVER CHICAGO NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT..(145)
- 2030) LINK YOUR BRAINWAVES TO A COMPUTER, SAYS NEUROTECHNOLOGIES...(261)
- 2031) AT&T BELL LABS CLAIMS QUANTUM CASCADE LASER BREAKTHROUGH.....(309)
- 2032) INTEL WORKS WITH CNN ON LAN TV & DURACELL ON SMART BATTERIES.(310)
- 2033) IBM & DEC'S NETWORK MANAGEMENT TO DIVERGE FROM HP OPENVIEW...(399)
- 2034) LATEST NETWORKING HEADLINES..................................(310)
-
- ==== FEATURE ARTICLES ==================================================
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- 3010) WORKPLACE OS: A MACHINE WITH MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES.........(1143)
- IBM is pinning its desktop hopes on Workplace OS. It's claimed to
- offer the best of all worlds; support for multiple operating systems
- and the ability to gradually integrate Taligent's object technology.
-
- 3011) STANDBY FOR THE 32-BIT WASHING MACHINE WITH SPEECH INPUT?...(1134)
- Both Motorola and IBM launched PowerPC into the embedded systems
- market last week; today 32bit chips are so rare in this sector that
- market researchers don't even bother to count them, but this is
- changing.
-
- 3012) GUEST FEATURE: CLIENT/SERVER; THE CRACKS APPEAR.............(2127)
- Gary Flood of Software Futures is extremely fed up with this mess
- called client/server.
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- ==== POWERPC RESOURCES =================================================
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- 4000) FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS..................................(4014)
- Derek B Noonburg's wide-ranging FAQ list from comp.sys.powerpc
- Last updated: April 13th
- 4001) CLOCK-CHIPPING THE MACINTOSH................................(4846)
- Marc Schrier's fact sheet, from sumex.stanford.edu on how to replace
- your Mac's oscillator for something speedier. Not for the nervous.
-
- ==== POWERPC NATIVE SOFTWARE LIBRARY ====== (In BinHex format) =========
- *** We intend to make a wide selection of shareware and public domain
- software available in this section - but we need your help to find it!
- If you know of good examples please mail Chris Rose with its location
- and exact retrieval details - many thanks.***
-
- 4401) ADOBE PHOTOSHOP NATIVE POWERPC PLUG-IN.(1.0.1)..............(190k)
- Note: this an updated Version, which cures a few minor bugs in
- in the previous version. Worth an upgrade.(freeware)
- 4402) JPEGVIEW 3.2................................................(440k)
- Fast, flexible, JPEG, PICT, GIF, TIFF, BMP, MacPaint viewer for PowerPC
- Macintoshes. (postcardware/shareware)
- 4403) GOPHER SURFER 1.0b7.........................................(735k)
- Fat Binary - turn your Macintosh into a Gopher Server. Beta package
- that supports the full Gopher+ protocol suite (freeware)
- 4404) FETCH 2.1.2.................................................(399k)
- Fat Binary version of the excellent FTP client. Makes downloading as
- easy as falling off a log. (freeware/shareware)
- 4405) MACHTTP 1.2.4...............................................(161k)
- Fat Binary - turn your Macintosh into a HyperText Transport Protocol
- daemon and become a Web server (freeware)
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