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protomyth on Feb 1, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Said to Work on Mac Chip That Would Lessen I...

Considering they had NeXTSTEP release versions running on x86, PA-RISC, SPARC, and its original home 68000, they did pretty well. I do wonder why the MIPS chips were ignored.

rvense on Feb 1, 2017 [–]

Maybe SGI didn't want to play ball...

protomyth on Feb 1, 2017 | [–]

Probably, but it just seems rather odd since MIPS had an open system spec and Windows NT had been ported to it.

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