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I remember quite well hopping for a PowerBook based on what PA Semi was rumored to be making. I was devastated when Steve dropped the Intel bomb. The PC indust
by tambourine_man 4y ago
I remember quite well hopping for a PowerBook based on what PA Semi was rumored to be making.
I was devastated when Steve dropped the Intel bomb. The PC industry was destined to standardize on the most mediocre architecture, brute forced into a high performance chip due to sheer economies of scale.
DEC and Sun where no more and even Apple had to give in if it wanted a different fate.
Thankfully, the mighty cell phone saved us all from boredom and we're living interesting times in CPU land again.
- lproven 4y ago* hoping It's a different word (/ˈhoʊpɪŋ/) from "hopping" (/ˈhɒpɪŋ/) with a different meaning. :-)
- tambourine_man 4y agoThanks! Yeah, I know, but I suck at typing and spelling. And yet, I chose a profession that’s just basically what I do all day.
- snvzz 4y agoThere's a lot going on with RISC-V; several companies are working on high performance microarchitectures. It is good to have some excitement again.
- apple4ever 4y agoI was just like you, and still am haha. I loved PowerPC, and was very hopeful for PA Semi. They took it in a different, but still interesting direction.