Sun: So close!

Published on 2006-01-13 by Mark VandeWettering

In another one of those “close, but no cigar” moments, Bill Joy remarks about the recent switch of Apple to Intel processors:

“We got very close to having Apple use Sparc. That almost happened,” Joy said at a panel discussion featuring reminiscences by Sun’s four cofounders at the Computer History Museum here.

I’ll hazard a guess as to why it didn’t happen: because Apple isn’t stark raving mad.

Sun: Apple nearly moved to Sparc chips | News.blog | CNET News.com

[tags]Sun,Bill Joy,Intel,Apple[/tags]