On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Liam Proven wrote: > 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. Maybe if I was older and back in the day I could have organized a joint children of IBMers vs children of Apple bigwigs polo & tennis tournament at a shared country club, things would have been different. Of course then something like this might have happened: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/mar/10/tennis.france -Swift