>To be more fair to Apple's decision, at the time it was made, RISC was the New Hotness[tm] that was suppose to run much faster than CISC. And everybody, inclu

>To be more fair to Apple's decision, at the time it was made, RISC was the New Hotness[tm] that was suppose to run much faster than CISC. And everybody, including Intel, believed that CISC was doomed. That's why Intel developed the i860, i960, and Itanium, and MS ported NT to Alpha and PowerPC. Against that background, it would've been really strange if Apple had migrated to x86.