3 ms·

any particular reason? error rate, power use, ?

• zerohp 13y ago
  General Motors was a big user of Motorola 68k variants. Workstations and personal computers that used the 680x0 series switched to the Power series, maybe the developers just find them easier to migrate to.
  • duaneb 13y ago
    Personally I've just found the architecture clean and well-designed. Even if this only helps the developers I'd say it's worth it.
• Tuna-Fish 13y ago
  The ISA is not better than others in any real way, but IBM put a lot of early work into RAS features for their server chipsets, and this sort of leaked into the automotive and aviation world. If you want to run 3 cpus lockstep, verifying each other's results, the PPC world already has the infrastructure. This and other similar things make it an easy choice for some applications.
  • chiph 13y ago
    IIRC, the service processor on IBM x86 servers is a PPC. (runs the light-path diagnostics, and manages remote boots, etc)