Re: Apple's ways

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Roy Miller" <millers@inebraska.com> wrote in message
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> As a matter of fact, Intel would have loved to have such a partnership,
and
> might very well STILL like to have that partnership. An Apple-Intel team
had
> a rough port of MacOS to a 486 early in the 90's, but the switch to the
> PowerPC killed that idea. Intel doesn't like having Microsoft control the
> future of their chips, which is one reason they like Linux. If Apple
> switched to the Intel platform, or at least ported to the Intel platform,
> I'm sure Intel would drop a ton of money on the project, as it would: 1)
> expand the market for Intel chips, 2) give Microsoft less control over
> Intel's future
>
> AS for Motorola, as the news this week revealed, they may sell or spin off
> the chip division, as it isn't pulling it's weight. IBM may buy the
> division, or, AMD might. In either case, now it the time for Apple to
decide
> to either add the X86 platform, or move closer to IBM, or both.
>
> Roy
>

Didn't Motorolla and Apple have a falling out of sorts a couple
years ago over the future of its chips? I seem to recall that
Motorolla threatened to abandon the PowerPC because
it was mad at Apple over the cloning fiasco.

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