At 8:47 AM -0700 6/11/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: >On Jun 10, 2009, at 9:23 PM, tortoise wrote: > > Also, the POWER architecture is not going away in the least despite >> Apple being against it. > >Apple did not abandon the PowerPC...the PowerPC makers abandoned >Apple, in favor of those game consoles and high end servers (IBM) and >automobiles (The Chipmaker Formerly Known As Motorola). [etc] >Bluntly Apple's business for both companies was at best a hobby, not >linked to their main line of business.
Yea, most people don't realize that even tho Apple's sales were pretty good, volume-wise they were barely a gnat-sized customer to IBM/Moto/Freescale. The embedded market (for PowerPC) was and is far more lucrative than Apple's purchases. And the real development was in POWER anyway... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
