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

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

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.

Wrong.

>PowerPC had Motorola involved, their engineers involved. There is no 
>more IBM, no more Motorola in this thing. Only Rosetta.

There was no more similarity between PowerPC and 680x0 than there is
between PowerPC and x86.

>The CPU "families" are different I mean. PPC is evolution of Motorola 
>68k series, look the new Amiga guys run PowerPC, they don't run a 
>Pentium

PPC is not evolution from the 68k series; it's evolution from the IBM
POWER processors.
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