Motorola Inc’s Somerset team was showing off 100MHz PowerPC 604 versions of its Big Bend desktop development machines at Networld+InterOp 95, claiming it has roughly 300 products out with independent hardware vendors, independent software vendors and OEM customers. At the show it was running a Big Bend against a 90MHz Pentium, both fitted with beta releases of Windows NT 3.51 and Office: no prizes for guessing which took the honours. At its booth it had 100MHz IBM Corp PowerPC 601 Sandalfoot running Solaris, AIX, OS/2 and NetWare. Like IBM, Motorola is aiming for 604 volumes in May for desktops to begin with. Pre-release PowerPC 620 boxes should be out by year-end by which time it will also have a fault-tolerant PowerPC story, it says.
