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Wow. It only took 20 years, but PowerPC's are finally going to happen with the new Power9 CPU from IBM.
@Ricardus What do you mean? PowerPCs have been available for some time.
@ND3JR @vertigo @Ricardus All my RISC hope lies with RISC-V
https://riscv.org/
@klaatu @Ricardus Not quite. PowerPC was a subset of POWER, but at the same time, a superset as well, as it evolved independently.
IBM merged the lines with (IIRC) POWER 4. So, anything after POWER3 is also PowerPC compatible.
Hence my confusion. I don't understand the mention of PowerPC in a modern context. POWER8 and POWER9 motherboards have been out for some time. (If you've the cash for them, they're not cheap!)
@vertigo @klaatu @Ricardus People at @raptoreng have some for sale i think.
@klaatu
They're separate but related. The PowerPC uses a subset of instructions from the POWER architecture. The whole platform was created by an alliance of Apple, IBM, and Motorola, hence the name "AIM alliance."
Personally I'd love to see some PowerPC systems again, even as a niche.
@vertigo @Ricardus