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PowerPC Open Platform Motherboards Finally Here

Posted by timothy on from the hope-laptops-come-next dept.

Cajal writes: "IBM's POP (PowerPC Open Platform) is a standard for making PowerPC-based motherboards. It's been out for years, but no one did anything with it. That's now changed. According to a story on PenguinPPC, Mai Logic is finally making POP motherboards. Finally, we can buy PowerPC motherboards without dealing with Apple."

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  1. Re:Teron PX Board supports PPC, MIPS, and X86 by MrResistor · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I think it's much more interesting to have them running in parallel. I'm envisioning a system where you have a "master" CPU, perhaps chosen at boot, and the other 2 running as slaves. That way you can run binary-only apps on their native hardware and without hurting your uptime. IIRC, the Amiga did something like this, though you couldn't choose the "master" at boot, obviously.

    Seems to me this would make for an incredible cross-platform developement tool.

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