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		SoftTalker on Jan 6, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple squandered the Holy Grail Wasn't Apple part of the PowerPC alliance?

wat10000 on Jan 6, 2025 [–]

They were, but Motorola and IBM designed and manufactured the CPUs. Apple presumably had some input, and they designed hardware platforms for the alliance, and of course software.

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