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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. Did anybody catch the Mars Pathfinder reference? by csoto · · Score: 0, Troll

    "The RSC implementation of the POWER1 microprocessor was used as the central processor for the Mars Pathfinder mission and is the chip from which the PowerPC line is descended"

    I guess that's why it's still up there, not bluescreened...

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