@clacke @inachara yeah, I don't hate it here in Arizona :)

@inachara on my front porch :)

Fuck around and find out

Anyway, they (Apple) had to switch to _something_ as Motorola wasn't delivering updates to the 68k line as scheduled.

So they started an alliance with IBM and—weirdly—Motorola again.

And came up with PowerPC, which they used for over a decade before switching to Intel.

@vfrmedia I'm sure their main concern besides speed was availability at scale, and Motorola and IBM had factories that could churn out chips

Do you sometimes wonder what computers would look like now if Apple had switched to ARM processors in the early 1990s instead of PowerPC (and leaving ARM to the Newton line later)?

Probably you don’t, but still interesting to think about.