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PowerPC is a trimmed down subset of the POWER architecture. The latter has a higher number of instructions, and a POWER CPU can execute the generic PowerPC cod
by inkyoto 1y ago
PowerPC is a trimmed down subset of the POWER architecture.
The latter has a higher number of instructions, and a POWER CPU can execute the generic PowerPC code but not vice versa (unless compiled for the common set of instructions).