Glenn Cole wrote:
> Someone wrote to Greg Stigers:
> > Avoid the Motorolas like the plague, at least get a PowerPC one.
> > It's the de-facto standard. Many applications are no longer
> > supported on Motorola platforms. Some others ship with "fat"
> > binaries with both Motorola and PPC support (Reflection comes to
> > mind).

> The reason for THIS note is just to say that Patrick Santucci
> convinced me that this was not the case.  Specifically, the writer
> must have thought that Motorola made only the older CISC processors
> (680x0), while someone (IBM) makes the RISC (PowerPC) processors.

OK, OK, it was me :-)  And yes, I forget they still have their finger in
the PPC pie.  So rather than branding it as I originally stated above,
substitute "680x0" for "Motorola" in the above and that was what I
*meant* to say.  My mistake.

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>