IIRC Motorola made the PPC processors too or was that IBM? Amazing the stuff
you forget.
-Curt
From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
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Cc: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Mac OS 10.12
They used Motorola for the original processors, I believe.
There was similar consternation when they went from PPC to Intel as well.
Dan
> On Jun 23, 2016, at 11:51 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> Ummm, are you forgetting the PowerPC taking over for the original processors,
> the name of which has escaped me now. That would have been OS 8.1 maybe?
> Microsoft doesn't make hardware so they have no vested interest in dropping
> support for older hardware. Witness that Win 10 still comes in a 32 bit
> flavor. Apple hasn't supported 32 bit hardware for a long time.
> -Curt
>
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