Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it

[hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu (Dr. Richard E. Hawkins)]

In article <n3NB$THVCKR$Ewrd@dmc12.demon.co.uk>,
Richard Kilpatrick  <richard@dmc12.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In message <20030821061922.06546.00000278@mb-m28.aol.com>, Supertimer 
><supertimer@aol.com> writes
>>It is just that it is very funny that IBM designed it.
>>In the PC world, this is no surprise at all.  But
>>remember, in the Apple world until recently IBM
>>was the big evil "Big Brother."

>Recently being 1992ish, of course - IBM had a lot of input into the 
>original Power architecture with Motorola. 

Err, not quite.  

IBM *designed* the Power architeture, and it was already in production.
IBM, Apple, and Motorola got together to implement it as PowerPC


>Of course, I could just complain that Apple dropped the Apple ///, and 
>it was Insanely Great, and why did they kill such a superior platform ;)

Fear of litigation.  They were afraid that the Workman's Comp carriers
would sue them for all the injuries from lifting the machine two inches
off the desk to drop it and reseat the chips every week :)

hawk
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