[geeks] PA Semi CPU start up company

Joost van de Griek jvdg at sparcpark.net
Mon May 22 14:47:14 CDT 2006


On 5/22/06 8:40 PM, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:35:27PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>
>> Note that without the IBM deal, Apple would have implemented their "Star
>> Trek" project which was a 68040 based Macintosh. They already had it working.
> 
> "Star Trek" was an 80406-based Mac.

80486-based Mac, or Mac OS running on AT-486 hardware? I don't quite recall
off-hand. But something entirely different from today's Intel Macs on OS X,
for sure.

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