**Ricardus** @Ricardus@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 13, 2018, 02:12

**Ricardus** @Ricardus@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 13, 2018, 02:12

Ricardus @Ricardus@mastodon.sdf.org

Wow. It only took 20 years, but PowerPC's are finally going to happen with the new Power9 CPU from IBM.

**Vertigo @ MFF** @vertigo@mastodon.social · Jun 13, 2018, 05:22

**Vertigo @ MFF** @vertigo@mastodon.social · Jun 13, 2018, 05:22

@Ricardus What do you mean? PowerPCs have been available for some time.

**notklaatu** @klaatu@mastodon.xyz · Jun 13, 2018, 06:26

**notklaatu** @klaatu@mastodon.xyz · Jun 13, 2018, 06:26

@vertigo
Unless IBM is changing their product line, Power9 is not PowerPC. It's in their Power series. PowerPC is a separate architecture.
@Ricardus

**Dave V. ND3JR** @ND3JR · 2018-06-13T12:33:23Z

Dave V. ND3JR @ND3JR

@klaatu
They're separate but related. The PowerPC uses a subset of instructions from the POWER architecture. The whole platform was created by an alliance of Apple, IBM, and Motorola, hence the name "AIM alliance."

Personally I'd love to see some PowerPC systems again, even as a niche.
@vertigo @Ricardus

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**notklaatu** @klaatu@mastodon.xyz · Jun 13, 2018, 17:40

**notklaatu** @klaatu@mastodon.xyz · Jun 13, 2018, 17:40

@ND3JR @vertigo @Ricardus All my RISC hope lies with RISC-V
https://riscv.org/

**Vertigo @ MFF** @vertigo@mastodon.social · Jun 13, 2018, 17:54

**Vertigo @ MFF** @vertigo@mastodon.social · Jun 13, 2018, 17:54

@klaatu @ND3JR @Ricardus Mine too, but I still have a soft spot for POWER architecture. It was the first RISC architecture I've ever used, and it has a long and rich history dating all the way back to the System/800 experimental architecture.