Moved: IBM ceases production.
I heard that, from an actual I.B.M employee that chip making is slowingdown/ceasing. They are restalking their plants/buildings with motorola made computers. These computers will be used for clerical and for programming.
Purportedly, the chip in the box is also a motorola. Where does this take us?
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Purportedly, the chip in the box is also a motorola. Where does this take us?
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<strong>I heard that, from an actual I.B.M employee that chip making is slowingdown/ceasing. They are restalking their plants/buildings with motorola made computers. These computers will be used for clerical and for programming.
Purportedly, the chip in the box is also a motorola. Where does this take us?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah, that makes sense...invest in new production facilities in order to reduce production.
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I'm sure it will come as quite a shock to all the IBM guys at the Microprocessor Forum when it's announced!
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<strong>I heard that, from an actual I.B.M employee that chip making is slowingdown/ceasing. They are restalking their plants/buildings with motorola made computers. These computers will be used for clerical and for programming.
Purportedly, the chip in the box is also a motorola. Where does this take us?</strong><hr></blockquote>
A real live employee? Gee, IBM only has what, 120,000 of those?
Just a side note: the word is "restOCKing", not restALKing" I doubt IBM is hunting motorola systems, again. (could be fun though.
120,000 out of 300,000,000? Ya wow. That's 1 in every 2500 people (U.S) and 1 in every 50,000 people world wide. The odds are better than Lottery, but not as good as when you want to find them in a crowd.
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<strong>They might have been packaged cases. But the decal on the outside of the box reads "Motorola." He also has said that they are really-really fast. I couldn't get any more details because he said they were just getting them in and he was getting his IBM AUX machine ready to be re-sold.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Dude, it's <a href="http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/"; target="_blank">AIX</a>. A/UX is Apple's first failed attempt at a modern operating system. Try to guess the other two.
I'm going to take a stab and guess: DOS and Windows...or were those only spawned from the Apple][ and the MacOS?
hmmmm.
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<strong>I heard that, from an actual I.B.M employee that chip making is slowingdown/ceasing. They are restalking their plants/buildings with motorola made computers. These computers will be used for clerical and for programming.</strong><hr></blockquote>
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> So your IBM source told you, essentially, that they're converting their fabs into office space? <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
<strong>What's the fabrication unit for. Yes, I have heard the rumor. Do you really know what it's for? Or is the "fabrication unit" something you see as proof that IBM is now going to make a bajillion new G5's, Power5's and G4's. I don't think that's all IBM makes.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Then please do tell us what do you think the "fabrication unit" is for.