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[Simon Spero <ses AT unc.edu>]

Shea Tisdale wrote:

> I wish they had gone with AMD64.  But I guess that wasn't in the cards.
>  
I think Intel was feeling the pinch and got RDF'ed into making an offer 
too good to pass up.  I also have a hunch that someone at Apple 
overplayed their hand with IBM, and didn't realize the difference 
between volume (macintosh sales), and VOLUME (PS3 and XBox 360). 

I  wonder if IBM demanded naming rights for those machines as part of 
the deal?

Simon
p.s.
 My side project for the past few weeks or so has been working on an 
optimized messsage dispatch sequence for objective-c.  One approach 
depended entirely on having an altivec; the other based around self 
modifying code that could avoid cache and multi processor consistency 
checks.  Guess how much of that is relevant on x86.  Grrrr.