UX, AIX, FLAYX...

[William Donzelli]

> POWER5 and POWER6 have evolved quite a bit from where POWER4 was.  IBM
> made a lot more money selling POWER processors, systems, and consulting
> to go with it, than they ever did with selling PPC chips to apple.  IBM
> was dragging their feet with PPC features on the G5 (and whatever would
> have been G6), which is why Apple abandoned them; if IBM was making
> enough money from Apple on their G5s,  I'm sure that they would have
> payed more attention to what Apple wanted (like low-power noteboot
> CPUs).

Looking back, the POWER lines for Apple were starting to be more of a
nuisance for IBM. I do not think anyone was crying in Fishkill when
the news came down about the Mac architecture change.

--
Will