[Info-vax] OT: IBM Offering $9-10 Per Share for Sun

[JF Mezei]

Neil Rieck wrote:

> p.s. For years Steve Jobs denied rumors that Apple products would be
> based upon Intel chips. Then in 2005 we learned that he had been
> running a Skunk Works for more than 5 years to do just this. Job's
> peers at HP should take note.


Another thing. Whetever skunk works happened at Apple to allow it to
start to deliver OS-X on the 8086 soon after the annoucement would have
been fully funded and approved/supported skunk works.

This is quite different from midnight hacks by devoted engineers who are
toying with a port to the 8086 and would present it to upper management
only after it had gone far enough to be presentable (or if management
lifted a ban on discussion of porting VMS/Hp-UX/NSK beyond that IA64 thing).