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PowerPC was pretty great for a while. Then Motorola and IBM started dropped the ball (or rather, stopped putting resources into what was not a particularly big
by wat10000 2y ago
PowerPC was pretty great for a while. Then Motorola and IBM started dropped the ball (or rather, stopped putting resources into what was not a particularly big customer) and Apple switched away.
- SoftTalker 2y agoWasn't Apple part of the PowerPC alliance?
- wat10000 2y agoThey were, but Motorola and IBM designed and manufactured the CPUs. Apple presumably had some input, and they designed hardware platforms for the alliance, and of course software.