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

On Fri, 30 May 2025 10:51:14 -0700, Al Kossow wrote:

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.

Also, the entire history of the development of the first-generation
Macintosh -- Motorola all the way, even after the switch from 68K to
PowerPC.

The switch was pragmatic and forced because of the weak PPC
roadmap, especially in the portable space.

That’s why the last-gasp PowerPC processor that was used in any Macintosh,
the G5, came from IBM, not Motorola. I think the hope was that IBM would
step in where Motorola was faltering. But that hope didn’t last long.