At the same time, you need mindshare at the lower end to drive demand for the high end. I previously developed for POWER by getting an Apple Mac Mini. Very af

At the same time, you need mindshare at the lower end to drive demand for the high end. I previously developed for POWER by getting an Apple Mac Mini. Very affordable, and while not a full POWER instruction set was sufficient to test and validate my code. Today, there is no equivalent, and I'm about to dispose of the Mini. I couldn't justify use of POWER today even though we have a datacentre stuffed full of machines for HPC, and could likely make use of it. We have zero experience with it, and no easy way to get any experience. Being able to buy a cheap low-end system for experimentation is important. If I wanted to do this for ARM, I could buy half a dozen cheap boards online this morning and have them delivered by Monday. But POWER is out of reach.