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As if designing an instruction set, execution units, and pipeline is not hard enough, getting four cores to work together is more than simply a matter of cloning and connecting. Aquarius never got close to silicon. I’m guessing Apple ran head on into the pitfalls of bus arbitration and cache coherency in multiprocessor scenarios. After three years of effort, Aquarius was scuttled, with Apple soon thereafter turning to IBM and Motorola for help in designing PowerPC.