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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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  • 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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  • Free and open source software portal PearPC is a PowerPC platform emulator capable of running many PowerPC operating systems, including pre-Intel versions...
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  • PowerPC G4 is a designation formerly used by Apple to describe a fourth generation of 32-bit PowerPC microprocessors. Apple has applied this name to various...
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  • Macs can run PowerPC, Intel, and universal binaries, PowerPC Macs support only universal and PowerPC builds. Support for the PowerPC platform was dropped...
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  • reference PowerPC-based systems, such as the PC Power Series and the Power Macintosh. Creating a unique but open and industry-standard reference platform of...
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    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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  • respond to the move to the PowerPC platform in the early 1990s, and when Metrowerks first introduced their CodeWarrior/PowerPlant system in 1994, it rapidly...
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  • MkLinux (category PowerPC Linux distributions)
    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 AIM alliance with Motorola for the PowerPC platform. ScriptX was one of several similar software platforms that started at Apple in that timeframe...
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    in the early-to-mid-1990s, but disappeared as the Mac moved to the PowerPC platform. Intel also used the COASt standard for their Pentium systems, where...
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  • for personal use Pay-per-click, an internet advertising model PearPC, a PowerPC platform emulator Peercoin, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency Peripheral pin...
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  • Shogo: Mobile Armor Division (category Articles using Video game reviews template in single platform mode)
    The Operative: No One Lives Forever. Shogo was ported to the Amiga PowerPC platform in 2001 by Hyperion Entertainment. Hyperion also made the Macintosh...
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    Northbridge (computing) (category IBM PC compatibles)
    found on other platforms, such as the PowerPC platform. A common example of a northbridge on a PowerPC platform is in Apple's older PowerPC-based computers...
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    elsewhere. Eventually, the company adopted the PowerPC platform, and ported the then-yet unreleased BeOS to PowerPC. In October 1995, the BeBox personal computer...
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    historical AmigaOS (m68k), AmigaOS 4 (PowerPC), AROS (x86, PowerPC, m68k), MorphOS (PowerPC) Atari TOS, MiNT BSD (many platforms; see NetBSDnet,[clarification...
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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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    Mac transition to Intel processors (category Macintosh platform)
    original Motorola 68000 series architecture in favor of the then-new PowerPC platform. Apple's initial press release originally outlined that the move would...
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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 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • The following is a list of PowerPC processors. 601 50 and 66 MHz 602 consumer products (multiplexed data/address bus) 603/603e/603ev notebooks, embedded...
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  • Research Institute and Apple in February 1996 to port Linux to the PowerPC platform, and thus Macintosh computers. In mid 1998, the community-led MkLinux...
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  • 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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  • Challenges and Opportunities – Power.org Freescale Semiconductor reveals PowerPC core roadmap and scalable system-on-chip platforms – Motorola.com Freescale...
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  • other PowerPC emulators namely supporting a wide range of platforms from Linux to Mac and Windows on current CPU architectures. Another PowerPC emulator...
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  • compatibility among PowerPC-based systems built by different companies; IBM POP (PowerPC Open Platform) is an open and free standard and design of PowerPC motherboards...
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  • Intel only release, thereby officially discontinuing Logic for the PowerPC platform. Logic Pro 9.1 had the option of running in 64-bit mode, which allowed...
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