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
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