[Arm-netbook] ppcnotebook

Stefan Monnier monnier at iro.umontreal.ca
Thu Sep 14 13:16:34 BST 2017


> Forgive my own stupidity on the subject, but what's the difference between
> PowerPC as implemented in the PowerMacs of yore, and this "Power9" thing
> you mention?

IBM has always had a line of beefy POWER processors (some of which
implement the PowerPC instruction set, others not (tho it's always very
close)), for use in their workstations and mainframes.  Those are/were
of no use to Apple who needed low-power CPUs for its laptops.


        Stefan




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