[rescue] Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips

[Joshua Boyd]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 10:00:00AM -0700, Skeezics Boondoggle wrote:

> You can just tell that Sun wants to be selling SPARCs and Solaris, and the
> dabbling with Linux and Intel/AMD is still sort of half-hearted... a
> stopgap to staunch the hemmoraging... if the US-IV+ were more competetive
> SPECwise with the POWER5 and Itanic (and whatever's left of the Alpha,
> HPPA and MIPS offerings) then Sun would probably be pushing their own
> hardware a lot harder...

Now if only Sun would release all the nice x86 drivers for SPARC as
well, like SATA and assorted network cards. 


Joshua D. Boyd
jdboyd at jdboyd.net
http://www.jdboyd.net/
http://www.joshuaboyd.org/