15 Jul
2016
15 Jul
'16
11:27 a.m.
On Jul 15, 2016, at 10:39 AM, Swift Griggs
<swiftgriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Liam Proven wrote:
Yep. Damned them. It?s a real pain having to figure out how to allocate
development resources within a budget. That whole profit thing gets in
the way of all the cool stuff!
TTFN - Guy
But in the now-gone PowerPC era, yes, Macs used a
derivative of the IBM
POWER RISC processor line.
I always thought it was a shame that both IBM and Apple were so tight
around the pucker strings and never were more comfortable sharing their
OS's back and forth. I would have welcomed running AIX on more than a a
mere handful of the PPCs that could do it. I would have also liked to have
seen MacOS 9.x and 10.0-10.4 (or whatever the PPC span was) available for
some bits of IBM hardware, and especially the IBM IntelliStation line of
POWER5 systems such as the Power 285 (but also RS/6000s with
framebuffers).
@#$@#ing business-weasels got in the way.