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Hit the nail on the head

My own pet theory was for Apple to use the Alpha chip. InHell had the dies and the fab (from DEC), and Alpha "users" were as chauvinistic over their chip as any mac user was with PPC (i.e. Loyalty). This would have kept the mystique of having a processor that no one else had (in home computers). M$ was able to create Windoze for Alpha once - and with enough interest from dual-booters, they could do it again. Heck they just did it with PPC (Xenon)! I wonder if you can dual boot that G5 . . .

Transmeta would have also been an excellent choice. The code-morphing software could have been tuned for OS/X, and automatically - Apple would have a cpu that could run in any size platform from server to handheld (Oh yeah, that handheld could run NewtonOS also . . .).

Apple could have partnered with the cpu "losers" - MIPS, VIA, Matrox, NEC, TI ... and had their chips customized for OS/X (if they could deliver).

Posted by: Roger Ramjet   Posted on: 05/18/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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