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A History of PowerPC

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-into-the-past dept.

A reader writes: "There's a article about chipmaking at IBM up at DeveloperWorks. While IBM-centric, it talks a lot about the PowerPC, but really dwells on the common ancestory of IBM 801" Interesting article, especially for people interested in chips and chip design.

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  1. Re:IBM also says Screw you to intel by ShallowThroat · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    hah, your story go rejected too eh?

    It really is cool stuff though, The new POWER 5s, although i have no idea how they work, are said to allow virtual microprocessors to allow you to run multiple OSes at once. That could make for some pretty usefull linux apps/distros for windows technician (think repairing viruses and stuff)

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  2. Motorola by General+Sherman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They seem to have left out the part about Motorola totally giving up on PPC advancement, seriously hurting apple.

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  3. Quotable! by MrEd · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    [The RS64's] qualities make it ideal for things like on-line transaction processing (OLTP), business intelligence, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and other large and hyphenated, function-rich, database-enabled, multi-user, multi-tasking jobs


    Large and hyphenated! It's nice when technical writers get to slip a little something in on the side.

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    Wah!