Phase5 designed the PowerUP boards ( Blizzard PPC and CyberStorm PPC ) featuring both a 68k ( a 68040 or 68060 ) and a PowerPC ( 603 or 604 ) CPU, which are able to run the two CPUs at the same time ( and share the system memory ).

It is also possible to ignore the 68k CPU and run Linux on the PPC ( project Linux APUS ), but a PowerPC native AmigaOS promised by Amiga Technologies GmbH was not available when the PowerUP boards first appeared.

Some RISC processors such as the PowerPC have instruction sets as large as, say, the CISC IBM System / 370 ; and conversely, the DEC PDP-8 — clearly a CISC CPU because many of its instructions involve multiple memory accesses — has only 8 basic instructions, plus a few extended instructions.

The address space was expanded in 1995 when the RISC PowerPC RS64 64-bit CPU processor replaced the 48-bit CISC processor.

Like the iMac, the iBook G3 had a PowerPC G3 CPU, and no legacy Apple interfaces.

The CPU was the PowerPC, a single-chip version of IBM's POWER1 CPU.

* ECX home page ( a free PowerPC CPU implementation )

It originally shipped with a 120 MHz PowerPC 604 CPU, later with the same chip running at 150 MHz, and finally with a PowerPC 604e running at 180 MHz.

The main difference between the ATX-format AmigaOne SE and XE was that the AmigaOne SE had a soldered-on 600 MHz PowerPC 750CXe processor, whereas the AmigaOne XE used a CPU board attached to a MegArray connector on the motherboard.

* MAME uses dynamic recompilation in its CPU emulators for MIPS, SuperH, PowerPC and even the Voodoo graphics processing units.

300 MHz Motorola PowerPC 750 processor with off-die L2 cache on the CPU module from a Power Mac G3.

Equipped with a 233, 266, 300, or 333 MHz PowerPC 750 ( G3 ) CPU from Motorola, these machines used a 66. 83 MHz system bus and PC66 SDRAM, and standard ATA hard disk drives instead of the SCSI drives used in most previous Apple systems ; however, they retained a legacy Fast SCSI internal bus ( up to 10 MB / s ) along with the then-standard DB-25 external SCSI bus which had a top speed of 5 MB / s.

They all used the PowerPC 603e CPU, at speeds of 100 MHz, or 166 MHz in the 860 model.

The Power Mac G5 was Apple's marketing name for models of the Power Macintosh that contained the IBM PowerPC G5 CPU.

* PowerPC A2, a high-speed Power Architecture CPU

** Power Mac G5, Apple's marketing name for models of the Power Macintosh which contain the IBM PowerPC G5 CPU

The PowerPC 970 ( G5 ) was the first IBM-manufactured CPU to implement VMX / AltiVec, for which IBM reused the old 7400 design they still had from the design they did with Motorola in Somerset.

An 800 MHz Motorola PowerPC 7450 on a Power Mac G4 CPU module

Thus, for example, an MS Windows compatibility layer is not possible on PowerPC hardware, since MS Windows requires an x86 CPU ; in that case, full emulation is needed.

Jobs then disclosed that Mac OS X had been engineered from its inception to work with Intel's x86 line of processors in addition to the PowerPC, the CPU for which the operating system had always been publicly marketed.

Later models were offered with a 68040 CPU in this slot, and third-party upgrades could be used to add a PowerPC processor.

** Run on RS / 6000 systems with PowerPC processors and PCI busses.

As the world quickly moved to IP for both LAN and WAN uses, Apple was faced with maintaining two increasingly outdated code bases on an ever-wider group of machines as well as the introduction of the PowerPC based machines.

** The Wii is backward compatible with all games from the Nintendo GameCube, due to its being based on the PowerPC, the same base as the latter ; however, a " Family Edition " model released in North America and Europe in late 2011 removes GameCube support.

* The Intel versions of Mac OS X from versions 10. 4 ( Tiger ) to 10. 6 ( Snow Leopard ) have Rosetta, a binary translation program that allows applications meant for use on PowerPC Macs to run on Apple systems that use Intel processors.

Initially designed to run on AT & T Hobbit-based hardware, BeOS was later modified to run on PowerPC-based processors: first Be's own systems, later Apple Inc .' s PowerPC Reference Platform and Common Hardware Reference Platform, with the hope that Apple would purchase or license BeOS as a replacement for its then aging Mac OS.

It is available on Linux and BSD for Intel x86 ; Linux for Alpha ; Mac OS X for Intel x86 and PowerPC ; and Solaris, IRIX, and HP-UX on their native platforms.

" SBCL runs on the platforms CMUCL does, except HP / UX ; in addition, it runs on Linux for AMD64, PowerPC, SPARC, MIPS, Windows x86 and has experimental support for running on Windows AMD64.

Other operating systems running on PowerPC using ELF:

Earlier versions also ran on the i860, Alpha, MIPS, Fairchild Clipper, and PowerPC architectures.

It was also available on some non-IBM compatible machines such as Motorola 68k-based Apollo ( 68020 ) and Amiga 3000 ( 68030 ) workstations, the short-lived AT & T Hobbit and later PowerPC based BeBox.

* Links for Mac OS X on PowerPC and Intel

Such buffer eliminates the major performance problems from microkernels that are slow on competing architectures ( Pentium, PowerPC, Alpha ) because of the need to flush the TLB on the frequent context switches.

Initially the NRW was to be based on the Motorola 88110 processor, but due to a lack of confidence in Motorola's commitment to the 88k architecture, it was later redesigned around dual PowerPC 601s.

Work on the PowerPC machines was stopped along with all hardware production.

IBM also worked on a version of OS / 2 for PowerPC to be sold as " Workstation OS ".

IBM intended to replace the existing OS / 2 with this more advanced version that would run exclusively on the PowerPC platform, forcing users to migrate to proprietary IBM hardware and eventually eliminating the Intel version.

Power Macintosh, later Power Mac, is a line of Apple Macintosh workstation-class personal computers based on various models of PowerPC microprocessors that were developed, marketed, and supported by Apple Inc. from March 1994 until August 2006.

It is a mixed proprietary and open source OS produced for the Pegasos PowerPC processor based computer, PowerUP accelerator equipped Amiga computers, and a series of Freescale development boards that use the Genesi firmware, including the EFIKA and mobileGT.

Possible upgrades include 25, 33, 40 or 50 MHz Daystar 68030 boards, a couple of different 68040 upgrades, and two PowerPC 601 upgrade cards running at either 66 MHz or 100 MHz, exclusively from Daystar Digital, which was bought by XLR8, which still holds the Daystar product logo and name for its line of products.

Other manufacturers have also produced boards designed around the same form factor, using VIA, but also Intel, AMD, Transmeta and PowerPC technology.