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Re: OoO execution

From	mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
Newsgroups	comp.arch
Subject	Re: OoO execution
Date	2025-05-30 23:01 +0000
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On Fri, 30 May 2025 22:05:31 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Fri, 30 May 2025 10:51:14 -0700, Al Kossow wrote:
>
>>> Steve Jobs (he always prefer Intel but until this millennium did not
>>> poses political power to impose his preferences on technical team)
>>> lasting for about 3 years.
>>
>> His hardware products at NeXT prove this is nonsense.
>
> Also, the entire history of the development of the first-generation
> Macintosh -- Motorola all the way, even after the switch from 68K to
> PowerPC.

Steve had a power over Murry Goldman:: Goldman believed that Apple
volume would pay for the FAB, and thus the entire product line
consumed by Apple could be sold at marginal production costs.
Jobs knew nobody else would deliver product at this kind of cost
structure.

I have suspected Dell and Intel had/have a similar arrangement.

>> The switch was pragmatic and forced because of the weak PPC
>> roadmap, especially in the portable space.
>
> That’s why the last-gasp PowerPC processor that was used in any
> Macintosh,
> the G5, came from IBM, not Motorola. I think the hope was that IBM would
> step in where Motorola was faltering. But that hope didn’t last long.

Thread

The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-05-17 20:00 +0000
  Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-05-17 21:27 +0000
    Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-05-18 05:46 +0000
      Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-18 18:23 +0300
        Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-05-18 22:02 +0000
        Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers quadibloc <quadibloc@gmail.com> - 2025-05-19 01:08 +0000
          Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-19 01:56 +0000
            Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers quadibloc <quadibloc@gmail.com> - 2025-05-19 03:12 +0000
              OoO execution (was: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-05-19 06:22 +0000
                Re: OoO execution (was: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-05-19 17:10 +0000
                Re: OoO execution (was: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-05-19 17:46 +0000
                Re: OoO execution ze@zerandconsulting.com (Ze) - 2025-05-19 19:09 +0000
                Re: OoO execution Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-20 00:04 +0000
                Re: OoO execution mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-05-20 00:30 +0000
                Re: OoO execution scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-05-20 13:52 +0000
                Re: OoO execution (was: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers) George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2025-05-21 12:52 -0400
                Re: OoO execution Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2025-05-21 13:14 -0400
                Re: OoO execution moi <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2025-05-21 18:47 +0100
                Re: OoO execution EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2025-05-19 14:33 -0400
                Re: OoO execution quadibloc <quadibloc@gmail.com> - 2025-05-19 19:08 +0000
                Re: OoO execution Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2025-05-19 22:04 +0200
                Re: OoO execution Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-19 23:27 +0300
                Re: OoO execution John Savard <quadibloc@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-16 14:27 +0000
                Re: OoO execution mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-07-16 18:27 +0000
                Re: OoO execution Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2025-07-16 17:45 -0400
                Re: OoO execution Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-26 02:45 +0000
                Re: OoO execution John Savard <quadibloc@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-31 20:38 +0000
                Re: OoO execution Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-08-01 15:02 +0300
                Re: OoO execution John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-08-01 15:44 +0000
                Re: OoO execution (was: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-19 23:41 +0300
                Re: OoO execution (was: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-20 00:01 +0000
                Re: OoO execution (was: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-05-20 21:21 +0000
                Re: OoO execution (was: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-30 13:28 +0300
                Re: OoO execution (was: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers) Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> - 2025-05-30 10:51 -0700
                Re: OoO execution (was: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-05-30 19:36 +0000
                Re: OoO execution (was: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-05-31 07:57 +0000
                Re: OoO execution (was: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-30 22:05 +0000
                Re: OoO execution mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-05-30 23:01 +0000
                Re: OoO execution (was: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-05-31 08:10 +0000
                Re: OoO execution (was: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-05-29 19:02 +0000
                Re: OoO execution mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-05-29 20:06 +0000
                Re: OoO execution Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-29 22:20 +0000
                Re: OoO execution David Schultz <david.schultz@earthlink.net> - 2025-05-29 18:36 -0500
              Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-19 07:50 +0000
            Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-19 16:55 +0300
              Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-19 23:58 +0000
                Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-20 13:45 +0300
                Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-05-20 16:59 +0000
                Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-05-20 19:59 +0000
                Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-05-20 22:48 +0000
                Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-21 11:21 +0300
                Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-21 08:44 +0000
                Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-05-21 16:09 +0000
                Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-21 20:11 +0300
                Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-05-21 20:04 +0000
                Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-05-25 21:08 +0000
                Re: 360/44, The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-05-25 22:50 +0000
    Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-18 11:33 +0300
      Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-05-18 22:01 +0000
        Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-19 16:35 +0300
          Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> - 2025-05-19 09:49 -0700
          Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-05-19 18:14 +0000
            Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-19 23:11 +0300
              Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-05-20 01:36 -0500
            Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-20 05:40 +0000
              Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-05-20 16:58 +0000
                Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-21 00:28 +0000
            Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers "Brian G. Lucas" <bagel99@gmail.com> - 2025-05-26 11:48 -0500
              Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-05-26 18:01 +0000
                Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2025-05-26 16:52 -0400
                Re: The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> - 2025-05-26 19:27 -0700

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