OT: but interesting to Mac users

[Dan Shafer]

Since this is so far OT, I decided not to reply in detail here. If  
you want to know what I think (and frankly I can't think of a lot of  
reasons you should), check out my blog:

http://www.eclecticity.com/.3c63d717


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Dan Shafer, Co-Chair
RevConWest '05
June 17-18, 2005, Monterey, California
http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit/RevConWest

On Jun 4, 2005, at 5:03 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

>
> According to a story on slashdot,
>
> /"According to C|Net, Apple has officially decided to drop IBM  
> <http://news.com.com/Apple+to+ditch+IBM%2C+switch+to+Intel+chips/ 
> 2100-1006_3-5731398.html?tag=nefd.lede>, and will use Intel  
> processors starting in their '06 line of systems. This change was  
> rumored last month <http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/ 
> 05/05/23/1052218.shtml?tid=118>. The announcement is expected  
> Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco,  
> at which Chief Executive Steve Jobs is giving the keynote speech."/  
> From the article: /"Apple successfully navigated a switch in the  
> 1990s from Motorola's 680x0 line of processors to the Power line  
> jointly made by Motorola and IBM. That switch also required  
> software to be revamped to take advantage of the new processors'  
> performance, but emulation software permitted older programs to run  
> on the new machines."/
>
> -- 
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