Re: How many times must Apple make such DRASTIC architecture changes?

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In article <wcf*CoOQq@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, Tim Cutts
<timc@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

> In article <3gr18rFcobl4U1@individual.net>,
> Ilgaz Ocal  <Ilgaz@spamcop.net> wrote:
> >We all miss something, this type of transition from one CPU family to 
> >other has NEVER happened in IT history.
> 
<one example snipped>

> It's happened to Sun machines to.  Very early Sun workstations were
> based on the i386 processor, and only later moved to SPARC, and then
> again to UltraSPARC.
> 
There were also Sun workstations based on the M68K family of chips. We
had two of them in our lab back in the late 80s -- both were 68020s.

<more examples and discussion snipped>

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