PowerPC Reference Platform (PReP) was a standard system architecture for PowerPC-based computer systems (as well as a reference implementation) developed...
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remains popular for embedded systems. PowerPC was the cornerstone of AIM's PReP and Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) initiatives in the 1990s. It...
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Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) is a standard system architecture for PowerPC-based computer systems published jointly by IBM and Apple in 1995...
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AIM alliance (redirect from PowerPC alliance)
Kaleida Labs, the PowerPC CPU family, the Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) hardware platform standard, and Apple's Power Macintosh computer...
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Power Architecture Platform Reference (PAPR) is an initiative from Power.org to make a new open computing platform based on Power ISA processors. It follows...
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attempts to create PowerPC reference platforms for computers by IBM and others: The IBM PReP (PowerPC Reference Platform) is a system standard intended...
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industry PC-9800 series - competing standard PowerPC Reference Platform → Common Hardware Reference Platform - competing standard for PowerPC UEFI (Unified...
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Sittenfeld P-rep, probability of replicating an effect PReP, the PowerPC Reference Platform Search for "prep" on Wikipedia. Prep for Prep, a leadership program...
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three different workstation platforms. It was an optional component in the PowerOpen architecture. PowerPC Reference Platform Crabb, Don (August 10, 1992)...
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BeOS (category PowerPC operating systems)
PowerPC-based processors: first Be's own BeBox system, and later Apple Computer's PowerPC Reference Platform and Common Hardware Reference Platform,...
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Open Firmware (category Articles needing additional references from July 2011)
Open-source computer firmware Power-on self-test – Process performed by firmware or software routines PowerPC Reference Platform – Computer system architecture...
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Oracle Solaris (section Other platforms)
Solaris on BL, DL, and SL platforms Fujitsu Siemens Solaris 2.5.1 included support for the PowerPC platform (PowerPC Reference Platform), but the port was canceled...
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Workplace OS (redirect from OS/2 Warp Connect (PowerPC Edition))
inadequate performance; low acceptance of the PowerPC Reference Platform; poor quality of the PowerPC 620 launch; extensive cost overruns; lack of AIX...
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architecture (ISA), which evolved into PowerPC and later into Power ISA. In August 2019, IBM announced it would open source the Power ISA. As part of the move, it...
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The PowerPC e5500 is a 64-bit Power ISA-based microprocessor core from Freescale Semiconductor. The core implements most of the core of the Power ISA...
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The PowerPC e500 is a 32-bit microprocessor core from Freescale Semiconductor. The core is compatible with the older PowerPC Book E specification as well...
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Apple Inc. (redirect from Apple pc)
formed the AIM alliance in 1994 to create a new computing platform (the PowerPC Reference Platform or PReP), with IBM and Motorola hardware coupled with Apple...
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floating-point unit. The PowerPC 601 was the first Mac processor to support the 32-bit PowerPC instruction set architecture. The PowerPC 604e was the first...
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and 1.8 GHz. QorIQ PowerPC e5500 powerpc-notebook.org homepage — The project to create a laptop based on the NXP QorIQ T2080, a PowerPC e6500 based processor...
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Genesi Pegasos (category PowerPC mainboards)
based in Frankfurt, Germany. It is a MicroATX motherboard powered by a PowerPC 750CXe or PowerPC 7447 microprocessor, featuring three PCI slots, one AGP...
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IBM AS/400 (section The move to PowerPC)
PowerPC architecture to support the needs of the AS/400 platform. Their extensions to the PowerPC architecture, known as Amazon (and later as PowerPC...
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MkLinux (category PowerPC operating systems)
Institute and Apple Computer in February 1996, to port Linux to the PowerPC platform, and Macintosh computers. The name refers to the Linux kernel being...
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The PowerPC 5000 family is a series of PowerPC and Power ISA microprocessors from Freescale (previously Motorola) and STMicroelectronics designed for automotive...
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IBM RS64 (redirect from PowerPC AS)
microprocessors implement the "Amazon", or "PowerPC-AS", instruction set architecture (ISA). Amazon is a superset of the PowerPC instruction set, with the addition...
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The PowerPC e600 is a family of 32-bit PowerPC microprocessor cores developed by Freescale for primary use in high performance system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs...
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THINK C (redirect from THINK Reference)
for compiling to PowerPC. Think's almost complete ownership of the Mac programming market was broken with the introduction of the PowerPC-based Macs in the...
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Windows CE (redirect from Platform Builder)
Microsoft had been testing Pegasus in early 1995 and released a strict reference platform to several hardware partners. The devices had to have the following...
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Apple Pippin (category PowerPC-based video game consoles)
into the Pippin platform required Apple to make a major change in its design – moving away from the 68030 footprint and to a PowerPC footprint. Apple...
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A computing platform, digital platform, or software platform is the infrastructure on which software is executed. While the individual components of a...
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Partition type (category IBM PC compatibles)
Manager with on-the-fly partition detection "PowerPC Microprocessor Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP)" (PDF). 1996-09-23. Retrieved 2023-10-28...
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