IBM Power – What's Next?

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https://openpowerfoundation.org/ for Open Source developers. The Wiki on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPOWER_Foundation

2 years ago someone made a GNU/Linux-based Power9 system: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/x88sdf/my_... Here is a page on making your own: https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/

It seems the Power CPUs are still in use.

What's wrong with PowerPC, not even a comment here so far.

And I haven't heard about it since Playstation 3.

The site is down for maintenance, so it is unlikely anyone will have much to say. The timing of the maintenance is bad.

https://web.archive.org/web/20241227034702/https://chipsandc...

Thanks.

I notice that they stopped capitalizing POWER with Power10. I preferred the capitalization since it stands for "Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC". I wonder whose idea it was to change it.

Capitalisation looks a bit old-fashioned. Memories of LISP, FORTRAN, ALGOL, COBOL, DOS, CICS, IMS, MVS, VM/CMS... Even FORTRAN and LISP are normally Fortran and Lisp nowadays.

so like maybe we can still read and comment thanks to the glorious archive folks...

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