Re:1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5
by pjmlp on Friday December 19, 2025 @01:37PM
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The fact is Microsoft did spent R&D money to support Apple customers, with a product without which, Apple would even be less relevant in the late 90's.
Re:1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5
by raw_anon_1111 on Friday December 19, 2025 @01:58PM
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They didn’t do it out of charity. They did it for profit. Microsoft was on the stage when the Mac was introduced in 1984. I don’t think they were ever seriously considering stopping Mac development. They ported office to PPC Macs in 1995 before the joint announcement 2 years later.
It cost some. But famously Microsoft used byte code for Office that was portable and was dog slow around Office 5.
And it’s not my “believing”, it’s math. Apple lost far more than the net $150 million before it became popular.
This isn’t my reading the history books. My first computer was an Apple //e in 1986 and by 1993, I was following what was going on with Apple real time via Usenet and TidBits (been around since 1990) and I lied to get a free subscription to MacWeek.