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

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Sat Jun 18 16:59:19 CDT 2005


Sat, 18 Jun 2005 @ 12:35 -0400, Phil Stracchino said:

> The way I heard it, it wasn't so much that they'd lost the protocol
> documentation as that there were no longer any developers there who
> actually understood the internals of the code any more.

Yep.

Same thing for Word.  I talked to some softie's in Charlottesville a
few years back, and they said huge portions of their code base were a
complete mystery at any one moment in time.


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