Re: Apple's ways

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

"Supertimer" <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
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> mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:
>
> >Apple's best strategy is (and has been for some time) to port
> >their software environment to "industry standard" platforms
> >to leverage the relentless technology advances financed by
> >the PC industry, which Apple and Motorola can never hope
> >to match.
>
> Wasn't there a time where they tried to do just that?  The
> PowerPC chip was a joint venture comprising of Apple,
> Motorola, and IBM after all.  It is interesting that just a
> couple of days ago, I saw my first PowerPC powered IBM
> computer in my company.  I didn't realize what it was
> until I thumbed through the manual, having always
> assumed it was an x86 PC.
>
> Inside the manual was a schematic of the motherboard
> complete with SCSI port and the PowerPC processor.
> It is a CHRP board: common hardware reference platform.
> This was the standard that bombed after Apple pulled
> out, leaving all the Mac clones plus IBM and Motorola
> holding the pieces.

Wow. A CHRP platform. I didn't realize that they even went
so far as to actually make any.  I thought the platform died
before they agreed upon the final specs. It really sucks that
Apple pulled out of the licensing market. I think they would
have been better off in the long run and that Jobs didn't give
it enough time to grow. They may have actually grown the
platform if they stayed the course instead of having the typical
Apple market share of just around 5%-10%.

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