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Their description of PA Semi is a little odd. Yes, I'm sure there was some ARM work but at the time they were far better known for PWRficient and the PA6T, and
by classichasclass 8y ago
Their description of PA Semi is a little odd. Yes, I'm sure there was some ARM work but at the time they were far better known for PWRficient and the PA6T, and they still had military contracts for it at the time they were acquired. There were rumours that was going to be the next PowerBook chip until Apple went Intel.
- monocasa 8y agoI'm surprised they didn't bring up Intrinsity, the semi group hand tweaking Cortex A8s to get better power consumption.
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- tambourine_man 8y agoThanks, I though I was the only one that remembered it still. I was salivating for an Apple designed PPC back then and was devastated when they switched to Intel. Even though it was probably the right decision, the world got a little more boring with effectively a single ISA for mobile and desktop. Same with OSs, something died with the original classic OS that never recovered, even though pragmatically, I love being able to run Photoshop on laptop Unix machine.
- classichasclass 8y agoYes, I remember the feeling well when the announcement came out. And I agree that Apple's human interface zenith was sometime in the classic Mac OS timeframe. Oh, well, I've got a Talos now. I don't suffer any illusions that it'll bring Power ISA back to the desktop in any great numbers, but it's at least competitive.
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