There will be big business for the PowerPC RISC in the Apple Computer Inc Macintosh world, but very little else in the mass market (unless you include things like timing and ignition controls in cars made by the Ford Motor Co, and perhaps television set-top decoder boxes) and we’ve been trying gently to wean PowerPC fanatics off the idea that IBM Corp’s Power Personal Systems will be allowed to derail the IBM Personal Computer Co with its vast investment and annual sales of iAPX-86-based systems even if it were in a position to do so, but Robert Stearns, vice-president of corporate development at Compaq Computer Corp, free to adopt any chip that will sell for future Compaq machine families, is rather more blunt: There’s no way it’s going to work, he told the Wall Street Journal brusquely – the PowerPC allies are smoking dope.
