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datadeft
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Apple CPU Architecture Through the Ages
Apple at the time of the x86 switch was roughly 3% of the PPC chip market.
yjftsjthsd-h
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Huh. What was yet other 97?
philwelch
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In part, all three 7th generation game consoles (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii).
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IBM and a lot of systems that had been 68K. Though the architectures were different a lot of 68K assumptions were maintained in the PPC so porting was easier.
datadeft
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Printers, game consoles, supercomputers.
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And cars (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_5000
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16221903-400-programm...
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https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/42065/reason...
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Sardtok
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This is the 68K->PPC switch about a decade earlier.
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