History of the Mac OS; part 2

This is just a very very very quick summary of what transpired in the 90s between Apple and Microsoft.

This is mainly for entertainment not for education, this contains very little of the detail at all.

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[satorianaide]

It's ironic that Apple joined with IBM later in the company's history with the PowerPC.

[GranitW]

@satorianaide

A lot of people called it ironic when Apple switched to Intel in 2006 as well. However, John Schulley, who started the transition project to PPC, later noted as saying that was the worst mistake he ever made and that he should of went with Intel. Intel was also Apple's very first investor, when they were still in a garage.

[satorianaide]

@GranitW Yeah - but in your opinion, which was the better choice: Motorola, PowerPC, or Intel - regardless of the technology?

[GranitW]

@satorianaide, prior to PPC, Apple was going to use a cheap put very powerful Motorola RISC cpu, the 88k. 88k was incompatible with 68k and was going to be the end of Macs (they'd use a new brand), they were so cheap some boxes had 4 processors in them. Intel's has always been behind in power and performance, but the popularity, market, and cost might have kept Apple up with Microsoft. PPC (the PC stands for Power Computing), was the most expensive but the most powerful of the 3.

[satorianaide]

@GranitW I recognize the ability of the PowerPC as well - since they were offering much lower frequencies than Intel, but still it was a match to Intel's higher frequency processors. If only PowerPC was energy efficient, they might have pushed through with it.

[GranitW]

@satorianaide The intel x86 Procs were great in a market where 99% of consumers believe hertz is performance. So for saturation purposes it was easy to sell them off and grow a strong share. If ever matched to the same or relative generation of a PPC however, even with much higher frequencies, they never stood a chance. PPC was expensive and hard to market though, that was the draw back

[vroammm]

Macintosh Os is better than Microsoft Windows

[astralseeker]

I wonder what really makes anyone choose between mac or pc

as in my own experience over decades:

- I see better quality in video on mac than pc

- I see better audio quality in mac than pc

- I see better designs in mac than pc

- I see less "bugs" in mac os x than windows

- I see numerous viruses & uses of antiviruses on pc, when, on the other hand, I neger got any virus on a mac

[kingplutoxiao1]

@astralseeker And what you said was complete bullshit.

[mrbrockpeters]

NextStep was so important because Tim Berners-Lee created the worldwideweb on that machine as well as the Mosaic browser (the first browser ever) was created on the NextStep.

[stephthestar90]

how did running mac os and windows on the same mac work before intel macs and bootcamp/parallels desktop?

[maw88ify]

Where is BSD in this video, where is Solaris... I don't hear any thing about mkLinux , or BSD that Apple took ideas from.

[kookieless]

@satorianaide u just list the song name before the video ends

[chuninuzomaki]

@vroammm incorrect

[iAppleseedy]

What's the background music on 8:40 ?

[pathammond]

@GranitW It all comes down to business, and intel are having a resurgence. Where 5 or 6 years ago AMD were the ones to beat, I think Intel are ahead right now. Plus compatibility wise it's a smart move. I have heard rumours that ARM proc's might be running in macs in coming years, but who knows? :p

[ChocosoftPC]

1:21 Lixux??

[asupshik]

@GranitW Intel was not an investor to Apple. Mike Markkula was and he used to be at Intel until 1974 and already retired when invested into Apple.