Even the ex CEO of Apple admited that motorola was a mistake.

[commodorejohn]

Sculley doesn't know shit about the computer industry, and didn't back then, either; he was responsible for the deal that gave Microsoft a perpetual license to the Macintosh UI, one of the principle reasons that Windows even got to stay on the market, and was a driving force behind Apple's policy of absurdly-priced computers for the elite when the PC clonemakers were busy saturating the market with comparatively affordable machines, leading them into the rut they spent half of the '90s in. As for this nugget of "wisdom," while I'm not really a PPC fan, it was definitely the better choice at the time, even if it didn't work out so well in the long run. Moving to the 386 and 486 Intel chips of the time would have meant even worse emulation compatibility than the first PPC Macs offered, and given that the Mac's userbase was all about software, that would have been complete suicide.

[commodorejohn]

Oh, no argument there. The only difference these days is that Apple has a large enough cult of True Believers to make it a sustainable business model. But back in the early to mid-'90s it nearly killed them. Had they priced more affordably, they might have avoided that problem and become more than just "the computer everybody who doesn't want a PC buys."

[commodorejohn]

He doesn't even seem to be able to grasp the most basic concepts of how computers work.  ROM is just storage - the processor still has to run the code that's on them, and it still has to run them in real time, and it did just that.  "calls to ROM" are calls in your program code which call these routines stored in the ROM and then the processor runs the code.

Putting graphics on a screen consumed all of the power of the processor?  He has obiviously never used an Amiga... hell even a 1979 Atari 800 had graphics chips (GTIA) which handled graphics and did sprites in hardware so as not to use the processor.

Ooh lordy, now I almost regret not reading the interview. This is comedy gold. (And as an aside, even on the Mac, which didn't have any video hardware besides a simple framebuffer, it didn't take the whole power of the processor to do graphics; the thing would've been completely unusable if it had.) Guy doesn't have a clue.