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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."

2 of 257 comments (clear)

  1. Damn You Taco! DUPE. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I swear, now you're just trying to piss us off.
    fucking christ.

    Can't wait to see this the 3rd time around.

  2. "Nearly" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Nearly" as in "We at Sun begged Apple to use our chips and keep us from going out of business, but Apple wouldn't return our phone calls".