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Apple Confidential 2.0, 2nd Edition
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Apple Confidential 2.0, 2nd Edition

by Owen Linzmayer
January 2004
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
344 pages
13h 15m
English
No Starch Press
Content preview from Apple Confidential 2.0, 2nd Edition
The Fallen Apple
188
Engineering was also in for
a major shake-up. The Newton
team had been designing its
product around a little-known
chip from AT&T that was
optimized for running code
written in C, not Apple’s new
Ralph language. Apple had
already paid several million
to finance the design of the
chip when AT&T asked for
several million more to help
nish the chip’s development.
After conducting an assessment
of low-cost RISC (reduced
instruction set computing)
processors, Tesler concluded
that AT&T’s buggy chip carried inherent price/performance disadvantages.
As a result, on September 8, Tesler dumped ...
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