Re: Motrola announces availability of 366MHz/3.5watt PowerPC

From: Mark Willey <willey@keymaster.etla.net>
Date: Tue Jul 28 22:49:56 1998
Newsgroups: comp.sys.wearables


R. Paul McCarty <mccarty@reg16.admin.rochester.edu> wrote:

: There's a good news article at cnet's news.com about the now available
: 366MHz PowerPC chip that uses old 0.29micron technology and smaller
: transistors to squeeze 366MHz and consume only 3.5watts:

:   http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,24618,00.html

: Despite the superior technology of the PowerPC chips, this will probably
: not make it as an embedded competitor for intel, or appear in anything
: other than the mac powerbooks and desktops, but for anyone who wants to
: run macos, mklinux, or freebsd, and tear apart powerbooks, this might be

YM "NetBSD", www.netbsd.org.  FreeBSD only runs on Intel x86.

Mark