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Re:IBM Opens Power Microprocessor Architecture by Someone on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @08:15PM (#7637801)
You cannot praise POWER for OpenFirmware. OpenFirmware came out of SUN, and allows for the development of CPU-independent drivers. IIRC, SUN needed that because they shipped workstation variants that either had a 68k CPU or a SPARC CPU.
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