IBM, Apple, Motorola Dedicate Design Centre
The belief that computers regardless of their make, can share the same programs, came one step closer to reality, when IBM, Apple, and Motorola dedicated a new design and development facility. The 80,000 sq. ft., S500 million design centre, named Somerset, will employ 300 engineers from the three companies. These scientists will endeavor to bring [...]
IBM, Apple’s first Power PC in early 1993
Originally Published in 1992, Computer Jagat Magazine
IBM and Apple Computer Inc’s first PowerPC-based system will be priced under US$2,000 to compete with 386SX machines, officials from both companies and Motorola Inc revealed.
The system, a low-end desktop expected as soon as early 1993, will offer about 20 SPECmarks in performance, said officials from the three com-paines, [...]
Byte Magazine’s Awards For Excellence
Byte Magazine’s, has released its editor’s choice for the best products of 1991. The Awards for Excellence went to the following products:
* System 7.0, the Macintosh operating system from Apple Computer. Also from Apple was the Quick Time 1.0 movie file format for multimedia.
* Another operating system winning the lop award was Digital Research’s DR [...]