* BeOS Revision 4 and later for x86 based computers ( where it replaced the Portable Executable format ; the PowerPC version stayed with Preferred Executable Format ).

It was the final version of Mac OS X to support the PowerPC architecture.

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.

On the Macintosh platform, Microsoft released a PowerPC version of Windows Media Player for Mac OS X in 2003, but further development of the software has ceased.

The portable version was initially called OS-9000 and was released for 80386 PC systems around 1989, then ported to PowerPC around 1995.

Appendix E of Book I: PowerPC User Instruction Set Architecture of PowerPC Architecture Book, Version 2. 02 describes the differences between the POWER and POWER2 instruction set architectures and the version of the PowerPC instruction set architecture implemented by the POWER5.

To address technical workstation, supercomputer, and engineering / scientific markets, IBM Austin ( the home of the RS / 6000s ) then started developing a time-to-market single-chip version of the Power2 ( P2SC ) in parallel with the development of a sophisticated 64-bit PowerPC processor with the POWER2 extensions and twin sophisticated MAF floating point units ( the POWER3 / 630 ).

A modified version of the RSC architecture, PowerPC added single-precision floating point instructions and general register-to-register multiply and divide instructions, and removed some POWER features such as the specialized multiply and divide instructions using the MQ register.

There was a new ISA release at this point called the PowerPC 2. 00 ISA, which added a couple of extensions to the ISA, such as a version of mfcr which also took a field argument.

OpenOffice. org version also supports generic Linux with Glibc 2. 2. 0, Mac OS X 10. 2 for PowerPC with X11 in OOO 1. 1. 2.

The OOO version added support for Mac OS X 10. 3 for PowerPC, and for Mac OS X 10. 4 for x86.

OOO version added support of Mac OS X 10. 3 for PowerPC, Mac OS X 10. 4 for x86.

This version can run on PowerPC systems running Mac OS 8. 5 through Mac OS 9. 2. 2, or PowerPC or Intel systems running Mac OS X 10. 1 or later.

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

IBM used PReP and CHRP for PCI version of IBM's RS / 6000 platform, from existing Micro Channel architecture models, and changed only to support the new 60x bus style of the PowerPC.

This was the final version with a cross-platform edition for the Macintosh available and it differed from the 2. x version in that it also allowed compilation for the PowerPC instruction set.

This port was originally developed for Linux but, since version 3. 99 update 4 build 4, it has included support for as well as Linux on the PowerPC and SPARC architectures.

The Mac OS version is provided as a Universal binary, making it fully compatible with both PowerPC and Intel-based Mac hardware.

Apple never ported A / UX to PowerPC Macintoshes ( though A / UX 4. 0 was rumored to have been an OSF / 1 adaptation ), and the company all but abandoned it by 1996, preferring to use a slightly modified version of IBM ’ s AIX system on their mid-90s Apple Network Servers.

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.

In 1998, the system was ported to the Intel x86 architecture, and PowerPC support was reduced, finally being dropped after BeOS R5.

Early versions of the PowerPC Macintosh also supported XCOFF, as did BeOS.

* PEF files, used by Mac OS and BeOS for PowerPC executables, contain the ASCII code for " Joy!

BeOS on PowerPC systems also uses PEF, although x86 systems do not.

R5 was also to be the last version to support the PowerPC architecture which BeOS had originated on, including the company's own BeBox hardware.

In January 2010, A-Eon Technology announced a new computer, the AmigaOne X1000, which they have claimed will feature a dual core PowerPC motherboard, and is also intended to run AmigaOS 4. x.

Non-Universal PowerPC programs will not run on Mac OS X 10. 7 Lion and later as Rosetta is no longer part of the OS.

Snow Leopard only supports machines with Intel CPUs, requires at least 1 GB of RAM, and drops default support for applications built for the PowerPC architecture ( Rosetta can be installed as an additional component to retain support for PowerPC-only applications ).

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.

All subsequent Macintosh computers would be based on PowerPC processors until 2006, when Apple switched to Intel processors.

This is how application objects compiled on one processor family ( e. g., the original CISC AS / 400 48-bit processors ) could be moved to a new processor ( e. g., PowerPC 64-bit ) without re-compilation.

SIMD instructions can be found, to one degree or another, on most CPUs, including the IBM's AltiVec and SPE for PowerPC, HP's PA-RISC Multimedia Acceleration eXtensions ( MAX ), Intel's MMX and iwMMXt, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 SSSE3 and SSE4. x, AMD's 3DNow !, ARC's ARC Video subsystem, SPARC's VIS and VIS2, Sun's MAJC, ARM's NEON technology, MIPS ' MDMX ( MaDMaX ) and MIPS-3D.

Most of an application is run directly as PowerPC code ( which would not be possible on Intel-based Macs ).

Each node in this heterogeneous system could be an i860, a PowerPC, or a group of three SHARC DSPs.

* Apple's Rosetta for Mac OS X on x86, allows PowerPC code to be run on the x86 architecture.

The term " PowerPC G3 " is often, and incorrectly, imagined to be a microprocessor when in fact a number of microprocessors from different vendors have been used.

The design was so successful that it quickly surpassed the PowerPC 604e in integer performance, causing a planned 604 successor to be scrapped.

As a compact and versatile motherboard, the Gossamer board was originally designed to be able to support both the high-end PowerPC 604e and the new PowerPC G3, but when initial tests found that the cheaper G3 outperformed the 604e in many tests, this functionality was removed and Apple's 604e-based systems died a quiet death.

In the emulator, such traps could be replaced by native PowerPC code, so the only code being emulated was the application itself, and any system API it called could be accelerated with native PowerPC code.

From PowerPC code, this UPP could be passed to the CallUniversalProc ( ) function to call it.

It was developed from " Cobra " and " Muskie " but included a more complete PowerPC ISA and was therefore set to be used in RS / 6000 machines as well as in AS / 400 systems.

It should be noted that the PowerPC Mac version of the software would not run on newer Intel-based Macs as these newer Macs do not support classic PowerPC or 68k binaries, nor would they run on PowerPC Mac OS X Leopard-based PowerPC Macs as Leopard has dropped support for the classic environment the titles run on.

It could be found in many Apple Macintosh in the early-to-mid-90s, but disappeared as the Mac moved to the PowerPC platform.

Another key feature of Copland was that it would be completely PowerPC " native ".