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Very fascinating! And I'd VERY MUCH appreciate a sub section to this article which specifies the ins and outs of precicely this, what exacltly is Power Architecture from a technical standpoint. A description of the RISC arcitecture, and so one might separate it from similar description of ARM, Sparc, MIPS or x86 for that matter. But in a more narrative manner perhaps. -- Henriok 22:13, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

POWER has always incorporated 'RAS' features, PowerPC has similar features but no were near to the extent as POWER, yet PowerPC's 'RAS' features have made PowerPC a likly choice for military, aerospace, and embedded application were data integrity is paramount. To give you an idea PowerPC incorporated some 'ras' features in 1993, x86 is starting to get 'ras' in 2006, would you send a rover a few million miles away were timing is critical and you couldn't guaranty code execution well you would if you used x86. These are some of the reason why PowerPC is so popular amongst military and aerospace applications, "RAS" CODE EXECUTION INTEGRITY. It all started in the "America project" POWER1 was 11 chips, why partially because of 'RAS'. 'Reliability Accountably Serviceability' has been part of the design from day one{1988}.

x86 gets 'ras' in 2007, maybe then you'll understand.

"arm" who cares if you phone crashes maybe less then 1% of operation. "x86" do you think Boeing gonna trust a few thousand tons of steel over your head on x86, no they use PowerPC.

"ras" = .99999999999999999999999% x86 crashes all the time{heat,radiation,cosmic} try using this in a satellite.

[edit] Switchblade

I added a link for the other plane at Northrop Switchblade also. You would think that such a big company would be able to come up with a novel nickname for each of its planes. Are you interested in military topics? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 19:02, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Heh yeah! I have always envied the never ending creativity by the military-industrial complex to come up with cool codenamnes for equally cool projects, but this time they really let us down. My real interesst is in military aviation or anything really which pushes the boundaries of technology. -- Henriok 07:48, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IBM POWER vs Power Architecture

I made a mistake when proposing the merger. I just removed the merger note. Thanks for pointing that out! --Gortu 22:23, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Motorola G5

I have to say that in reference to my edit made on Motorola G5 project... It is original research and probably shouldn't have been mentioned. I interviewed a high level Apple person who was made to do give a technical sales pitch for the school I was attendending and after talking about the IBM G5, he mentioned that they would have had a whole other machine if something else had happened. I probed him asking was he talking about the Moto chip -- he gave me a perplexed look and said to the person who he was trying to convince the G5 was a worthy chip that indeed Moto had a chip a year or two previous that apple was going to use, but it failed the early stages of mass production and seemed to need a full rethinking. Apple was pissed that they weren't getting their chip and asked IBM what they could do -- and soon enough the G5 was born. I don't have any published sources, only quotes I wrote down from this manager whose job it was to work with the 'PowerPC' alliance. -- MrMacMan 23:27, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] P.A. Semi

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[edit] PowerPC 600 page

Are the various PPC 6xx chips similar enough that a page covering all of them makes sense? I get the impression that all the G3 chips have similar designs, and all the G4's do, but that the 601, 603, 604, and 620 had significantly different core designs. Guy Harris 09:22, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

They do certainly differ technically but they could be grouped together in a historic perspective, just as I've done with the PowerPC 400 family. Since these processors are of yeasteryear, I don't think that the technical similarities or differences are the main thing, but the historical. Even though one might fill long articles with intricate details about either chip, I'm not the one who's prepared to write those articles, and this is the best I can do.. If I don't do something, I'd be surprised if anyone did anything. As it stands now, the separate articles are in a pitiful state. Time is not our friend here, and soon there will be hard to find any information about these processors. And besides that.. they do share the name for some reason. -- Henriok 10:57, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Terra Soft Solutions

Thank you for defending the Terra Soft article. Needless to say, I don't think it should be deleted either, but I've done about as much work on it as I'm inclined to do, so I'll leave it to the AfD bureaucracy to decide whether its existence is an offense to the community. Regards, Fleminra 02:31, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] eFUSE article added

I've added an article about the eFUSE. Mind looking it over and telling me if you think it's accurate? Thanks! --Audiodude 18:59, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] pictures

How do you put those pictures on your user page?Ciara me 23:55, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AWSOME

Thanks so much!!! Ciara me 10:56, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Power Architecture Logo

I removed the Power Architecture logo from the Mobius Strip article, because the use did not meet it's fair use rationale. mrholybrain's talk 21:11, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yellow Dog Linux screenshot

You're right, it is. That's pretty subtle though. I haven't worked much with localized non-English computer systems (the only one I can think of was a WinXP computer at a hotel in Quebec, Canada which was in French) and I guess I just expected that most of the UI would have been in Arabic. I suppose I also would have expected the description on the image page to note that it was an Arabic localized system as well. -- Hawaiian717 18:15, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] About Broadway

D'oh! It's a shame they might remove it. I think it really is true though. Nintendo is notoriously secretive so in their case it's next to impossible to really find any OFFICIAL info. Well, let's wait and see if they do remove my additions... Nintenboy01 19:11, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The PlayStation 3 Cell Broadband Engine

So would it make sence to add up the core speeds (not including the 2 SPEs not used for gaming) to 22.4 GHz? -- TheN1Armyguy. 21:32, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

No it would not. -- Henriok
Well then why do people add up the Xbox 360's cores to 9.6 GHz? What would you use to see which CPU is "better" than the other in terms of performance. I can't tell which is better, the PlayStation 3's CPU or the Xbox 360's CPU. -- TheN1Armyguy. 01:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Do they? In that case, they are not arguing in any usefull manner. I'd measure performance in real world tests. Which console gets the highest quality picture, which console get the most awsome effects. -- Henriok 07:32, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your answer. I was just saying that on the official Xbox website, they do add up the core speeds to 9.6 GHz. I'll try to look at all of the different factors. It looks to me that you don't like either console better. Anyway, thanks. -- TheN1Armyguy. 02:00, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your new Power Architecture page

It looks good. Some minor comments:

  1. It looks as if you've removed the date and the last access date from some of the URLs; should they be left in? Also, should "www-128.ibm.com", etc., just be "www.ibm.com", leaving it up to IBM to direct the request to a particular server?
  1. Did POWER4 replace the PowerPC-AS architecture, or did it implement it, or a superset of it? (In the glossary, it says it's "Used in IBM's RS64 family processors and newer POWER processors".) If it's an instruction set architecture, I'd say it continues in POWER4 and later, with the tag bits, extra decimal helper instructions, etc..
  1. "The 970 and its decendants is used" should be "The 970 and its decendants are used", in the section on the 970.
  1. "Non compliant" should probably be hyphenated ("non-compliant").
  1. In the section about future compliance, "there's no public documents available" should be "there's no public document available" or "there're no public documents available".
  1. "Mac OS" should probably be qualified as "Classic Mac OS" - "Mac OS X" is, in some sense, the 10th version of the Mac operating system (even though it's completely different internally, being a Un*x with Carbon layered atop it), and the Mac OS page is both for the classic and X versions (with the Mac OS X page being for OS X-specific material). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Guy Harris (talk • contribs) 18:27, 30 April 2007 (UTC).

"the way I understand it, the PowerPC 2.00 spec that was introduced with POWER4 included PowerPC-AS and the POWER3 architecture."

It may have included the public part of PowerPC-AS, but there are other things that, as far as I know, IBM doesn't make public - they reserve it for AS/400^WiSeries^IBM System i. This comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc/comp.arch USENET article talks about some additional instructions, such as DSIXES, which is used to generate a word of hex digits mixing 0's and 6's to do fixups from an add of two decimal numbers done with a binary add instruction. Guy Harris 16:56, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I guess the question is how IBM defines "PowerPC AS". This article says "PowerPC AS is virtually identical to the original PowerPC in one of its two modes of operation, while PowerPC Book E has optimizations for the embedded market." - the other mode of operation is the mode in which the processor runs with storage tags (so that you need special instructions to manipulate locations tagged as containing pointers), and I think the decimal-assist instructions and the like might be available only in that mode. Does "PowerPC AS" refer only to the stuff available in tags-inactive mode (which is, I think, all public), or does it also include the non-public extensions in tags-active mode? Guy Harris 19:42, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
More information on the non-public extensions in tags-active mode are available in Frank Soltis's book, Inside the AS/400 (Duke Press, 1997). Here he mentions some details on tagged pointers and the instructions which manipulate them, how address translation differs between the two modes, etc. Bob Philhower 10 Jan 2008 —Preceding comment was added at 17:35, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Re: PowerPC e700

Well, my main concern is that it violates WP:CRYSTAL as mainly speculation about a future product without much information released on it yet. That's mainly why I tagged it with a notability tag rather than PRODing it. Perhaps it may be more appropriate as a subsection under the company's article (or a similar article) until more information is released? Redfarmer (talk) 15:22, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

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