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    PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. PowerPC, as an … See more

    The history of RISC began with IBM's 801 research project, on which John Cocke was the lead developer, where he developed the … See more

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    Operating systems that work on the PowerPC architecture are generally divided into those that are oriented toward the general-purpose PowerPC systems, and those oriented toward the embedded PowerPC systems.
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    • Weiss, Shlomo; Smith, James Edward (1994). POWER and PowerPC. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-1558602793.
    • May, Cathy; et al. (1994). The PowerPC Architecture: A Specification for A New Family of RISC Processors See more

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    The PowerPC is designed along RISC principles and allows for a superscalar implementation. Versions of the design exist in both 32-bit … See more

    The first implementation of the architecture was the PowerPC 601, released in 1992, based on the RSC, implementing a hybrid of the POWER1 and PowerPC instructions. This allowed the chip to be used by IBM in their existing POWER1-based platforms, … See more

    Companies that have licensed the 64-bit POWER or 32-bit PowerPC from IBM include:
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