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It's incredible how Apple went from a laggard in new technologies to a trailblazer. I guess that's the power of a corporation on the scale of an 18th century t

It's incredible how Apple went from a laggard in new technologies to a trailblazer. I guess that's the power of a corporation on the scale of an 18th century trade monopoly.

pjmlp 5y ago
Except Oracle did it first with SPARC ADI, Solaris on SPARC is one of the few UNIXes that have tamed C for couple of years now. And actually pointer tagging architectures go all the way back to the early 1960's, with Burroughs being one of the first ones having a go at it.
- zokier 5y ago
  It's not much of trailblazing if nobody follows on the trail.
  - pjmlp 5y ago
    Indeed, Apple is following the trail of Burroughs, iAPX 432, MPX, SPARC ADI, Lisp Machines, among others.