P.A. Semi PA6T PowerPC

Re:P.A. Semi PA6T PowerPC by tambourine_man on Sunday June 05, 2022 @11:33PM (#31637042)

I remember quite well hopping for a PowerBook based on what PA Semi was rumored to be making.

I was devastated when Steve dropped the Intel bomb. The PC industry was destined to standardize on the most mediocre architecture, brute forced into a high performance chip due to sheer economies of scale.

DEC and Sun where no more and even Apple had to give in if it wanted a different fate.

Thankfully, the mighty cell phone saved us all from boredom and we're living interesting times in CPU land again.

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Re:P.A. Semi PA6T PowerPC by snvzz on Monday June 06, 2022 @01:00AM (#31637376)

There's a lot going on with RISC-V; several companies are working on high performance microarchitectures. It is good to have some excitement again.

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Re:P.A. Semi PA6T PowerPC by apple4ever on Saturday June 11, 2022 @04:45PM (#31708207)

I was just like you, and still am haha.

I loved PowerPC, and was very hopeful for PA Semi. They took it in a different, but still interesting direction.

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Re:P.A. Semi PA6T PowerPC by lproven on Monday June 06, 2022 @11:53AM (#31642057)

* hoping

It's a different word (/ˈhoʊpɪŋ/) from "hopping" (/ˈhɒpɪŋ/) with a different meaning.

:-)

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Re:P.A. Semi PA6T PowerPC by tambourine_man on Monday June 06, 2022 @08:22PM (#31648328)

Thanks! Yeah, I know, but I suck at typing and spelling. And yet, I chose a profession that’s just basically what I do all day.

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