Re: OoO execution (was: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers)

Steve Jobs (he always prefer Intel but until this millennium did not
poses political power to impose his preferences on technical team)
lasting for about 3 years.

His hardware products at NeXT prove this is nonsense.
The last NeXT prototype that I saw in a Moto lab in Austin
used the 88110.
He was completely capable of forcing his will on Apple hardware
engineers. Project leads who disagreed were let go or put into
continuation engineering.
The switch was pragmatic and forced because of the weak PPC
roadmap, especially in the portable space.