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Apple Nearly Moved to SPARC

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we-that-woulda-been-interesting dept.

taskforce writes "Sun Microsystems Co-Founder Bill Joy claims that Apple nearly moved to Sun's SPARC chips instead of IBM's PPC platform, back in the mid-1990s. From the article: "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. An account of his entire presentation can be found on Cnet."

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  1. digg? by capnspanky · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What is this, digg.com with its 10 year old news? It was all over the media back when Apple was making their switch to the new architecture.

    Nothing to see here, move along.

  2. Re:we know by kobach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yup. why are we seeing duplicate stories on slashdot? does cowboyneal have alzheimer's?

  3. Re:Dupe by Wonko · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So you are saying that an Apple/Sun merger is the same thing as Apple using Sparc chips? Does this mean Apple ended up mergin with IBM and are now merging with Intel?

    There may be a lot of dupes but you seem to have jumped the gun on this one :p.

  4. Re:Dupe by 1u3hr · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    So you are saying that an Apple/Sun merger is the same thing as Apple using Sparc chips? Does this mean Apple ended up mergin with IBM and are now merging with Intel? There may be a lot of dupes but you seem to have jumped the gun on this one :p.

    I'm not the GP poster, but he's right, it is a dupe. Read TFAs linked, different choice of headline, same story, both drawing on the same event of Jan 12.

  5. Re:almost ?!?!? by ettlz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can horses use hand grenades?

  6. "SUN Almost Stayed In Business" by iberian411 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    instead of reposting old slashdot stories, how about posting future slashdot stories? like "SUN Almost Stayed In Business".. Or The little IBM that couldn't.

  7. Re:Nearly... but not quite ... my friend!! by tyrione · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Exactly. One could say, "I almost layed Jenna Jameson before she made it in the Adult Movie Industry."

    In hindsight, that same person can say, "I was almost one of thousands to lay Jenna Jameson after she made it in the Adult Movie Industry, but one of only ten men to actually nail her."

  8. MOD PARENT UP - very informative comment by mzs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The above was a very informative comment, but was modded down as reduntant.