Re: Apple, IBM and PCs (Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it)

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <20040103181023.03858.00002497@mb-m07.aol.com>,
 supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

> The G5 Macs are
> a perfect example of convergence.  A UNIX
> based OS (MacOS X) running on a platform
> that has an IBM processor and AMD technology
> (the PCI-X tunnel is an AMD part and, of course,
> the HyperTransport technology).

Apple's been in on Hypertransport since the beginning:

<http://www.hypertransport.org/about.html>

Advanced Micro Devices, Alliance Semiconductors,                         
Apple Computers, Broadcom Corporation, Cisco Systems,                         
NVIDIA, PMC-Sierra, Sun Microsystems, and Transmeta are                         
charter members and comprise the Executive Committee of                         
the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. 

And worked with IBM on developing the PPC970 processor, so it's not 
'just' IBM on the processor.

Greg B.

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