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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. I hate all of you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fuck you all!

    love always,
    news for turds

  2. 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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  3. Re:IBM also says Screw you to intel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Erect Horsecock and Shallow Throat. Now, don't those two images go together well?

  4. +5 Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am interested becuase it is an interesting subject that I find interesting not to mention the subject is interesting and that I, personally, am interested in this interesting subject.

  5. 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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  6. I have a question for you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  7. ancestory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First spelling Nazi post.

  8. Wake up, Europe. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How much longer do you think you can go on telling yourselves that terrorism isn't your problem, that Muslim extremists will be appeased if Palestinians are given their own state, and if the U.S. pulls out of the middle East entirely? Every year you import millions of Arabs who hate your way of life, and you breed even more within your own borders. Within one generation, one of two things will happen: you will become a Muslim state, or you will have a civil war. And once again it will be up to America to help you out of the predicament that you will find yourself in. And the truth is, we probably will gladly help you when the time comes.

  9. 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!

  10. black mark by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fucking IBM made powerpc chips last year wtf.

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    Plus, eat my government pistol and guess what color my icbm warhead is..racists mother fuckers.