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Looks like L Ron. Hoover might be fixin to make his move:

http://news.com.com/Apple+to+ditch+IBM%2C+switch+to+Intel+chips/2100-1006_3-
5731398.html?tag=nefd.lede

On a fine day, 05-06-2005, Murray McDowall wrote:

>Looks like L Ron. Hoover might be fixin to make his move:
>
>http://news.com.com/Apple+to+ditch+IBM%2C+switch+to+Intel+chips/2100-1006_3-
>5731398.html?tag=nefd.lede

Let's be glad that the startup sound is not chip-related, or 
otherwise we would soon be hearing the Windows jingle coming out of 
Macs.  That's at least _some_ sort of consolation.  Although I would 
hate to see an Intel-inside sticker on my new G7...

Oh well, it seems that in a desperate attempt to keep up with the 
Mac's performance, PC manufacturers consider switching to the 
Motorola 680x0 family :).  So in the end the circle might well be 
round again...

-- 
Hendrik Jan Veenstra   h @ k n o w a r e . n l
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Hedrik Jan Veenstra wrote:

>Let's be glad that the startup sound is not chip-related, or 
>otherwise we would soon be hearing the Windows jingle coming out of 
>Macs.  That's at least _some_ sort of consolation.  Although I would 
>hate to see an Intel-inside sticker on my new G7...
>
>Oh well, it seems that in a desperate attempt to keep up with the 
>Mac's performance, PC manufacturers consider switching to the 
>Motorola 680x0 family :).  So in the end the circle might well be 
>round again...

Actually I think we might need to invoke a more complex topology ;-)

Check these articles - the sale of Apple to IBM was almost a done deal a
decade or so ago. 

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Perspectives/Why-Apple-and-folly-go-handinglov
e/2005/05/09/1115584883745.html?oneclick=true

http://www.themacobserver.com/columns/thebackpage/2005/20050511.shtml