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Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it
- Subject: Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it
- From: Richard Kilpatrick <richard@dmc12.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:07:03 +0100
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In message <bi2r5e$1dpk$6@f04n12.cac.psu.edu>, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins
<hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> writes
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
Well, I phrased it badly, but that's essentially what I meant. Doh!
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 :)
They could have bought the MacAlly 'dropper', a bent bit of cast iron
with a lever that you merely pushed to lift and drop your Apple ///.
I once had to move 5 of the buggers in my car. The tail was dragging...
Richard
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