> On Jul 15, 2016, at 10:39 AM, Swift Griggs <swiftgri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Liam Proven wrote: >> But in the now-gone PowerPC era, yes, Macs used a derivative of the IBM >> POWER RISC processor line. > > I always thought it was a shame that both IBM and Apple were so tight > around the pucker strings and never were more comfortable sharing their > OS's back and forth. I would have welcomed running AIX on more than a a > mere handful of the PPCs that could do it. I would have also liked to have > seen MacOS 9.x and 10.0-10.4 (or whatever the PPC span was) available for > some bits of IBM hardware, and especially the IBM IntelliStation line of > POWER5 systems such as the Power 285 (but also RS/6000s with > framebuffers). > > @#$@#ing business-weasels got in the way.
Yep. Damned them. It’s a real pain having to figure out how to allocate development resources within a budget. That whole profit thing gets in the way of all the cool stuff! TTFN - Guy
