On Jul 5, 2009, at 11:36 PM, MaGioZal wrote:
> > Well, maybe I should write "Apple made a lot of promises about the > RISC, but > didn't delivered many of them". > ;-) At the risk of restarting the flamewars...it wasn't Apple that didn't deliver. Apple's promises were real, and the RISC design could deliver them, but when your chip suppliers see you as a minor side business taking third or fourth priority to your 'real' business, well, your chip suppliers tend to treat you like shit. After all, their thinking went, where are you going to go? It's not (HA!) like you'll make ANOTHER major change in your strategy, Apple's committed to the PPC platform, right? It'd be far too disruptive to their entire product line to switch....look how long it took them to switch from 68K to PPC and those were similar architectures! > > I remember back in the 90's that in the Spindler era the CISC was > accused of > being "an obsolte chip archicteture which cannot expand well, > differently > from RISC"... Well, true, as it stood then, (in particular, the aging 8086-80486 design) it couldn't. What happened is that Intel adapted a number of RISC-like features into their CISC designs, which made them competitive. Then they made significant breakthroughs in getting smaller and smaller (hence lower and lower power) device sizes. Intel's modern chips are really hybrids of the two design strategies. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
