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As a fan of older Macs, I didn't know there were any 64-bit PowerPC chips made after the Power Mac G5 and the Cell processors used in the XBox 360 and PlayStati
by linguae 10mo ago
As a fan of older Macs, I didn't know there were any 64-bit PowerPC chips made after the Power Mac G5 and the Cell processors used in the XBox 360 and PlayStation 3.
This is cool; it would be cool to play with a modern, hobbyist 64-bit PowerPC board. I will be keeping an eye on this project!
- pjmlp 10mo agoIt is what powers (hehe) many IBM servers, https://www.ibm.com/products/power https://www.ibm.com/products/power
- Someone 10mo agoPower (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_ISA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_ISA) and PowerPC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC) have a shared history but are not fully compatible with each other.
- einr 10mo agoThis board is based on an NXP QorIQ SoC which is designed for networking hardware, not really intended for general purpose computers. It is to my knowledge, and has been for years, the only game in town if you need to be compatible with the PowerPC ISA (IBM POWER processors, while part of the same lineage, cannot run PowerPC code)