Apple Nearly Moved to SPARC 257
taskforce writes "Sun Microsystems Co-Founder Bill Joy claims that Apple nearly moved to Sun's SPARC chips instead of IBM's PPC platform, back in the mid-1990s. From the article: "We got very close to having Apple use Sparc. That almost happened," Joy said at a panel discussion featuring reminiscences by Sun's four cofounders at the Computer History Museum. An account of his entire presentation can be found on Cnet."
Fine dining (Score:5, Funny)
almost ?!?!? (Score:4, Funny)
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I hear.... (Score:3, Funny)
I kid, I kid....
Re:Back in the day.. (Score:3, Funny)
My dad wouldn't let me have anything that wasn't "PeeCee compatible" since that's what all businesses and Right Thinking Folk(TM) used, even if it was technically inferior.
I wasn't allowed an Amiga either (before the Archimedes came out)...
He's still stuck on Windows and curses it every time I speak to him.
I've been doing Linux and UNIX since 1995 (when I left home).
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Isn't that... (Score:5, Funny)
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More History (Score:3, Funny)
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obligatory George Carlin quote (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Had the workstation vendors worked together. (Score:4, Funny)
Hey, this broth isn't tasty enough! Better bring in a few more cooks...
Well if they *almost* used SPARC (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Fine dining (Score:3, Funny)