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[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 2:24 AM Immanuel, Yehowshua U <yimmanuel3 at gatech.edu>
wrote:

> I’m confused now.
> Is POWER the same as PowerPC?
>
> https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-the-PowerPC-and-POWER-architectures


apparently that says that PowerPC equals a specific chip (or, line of
chips) whereas POWER was the name for the ISA and architecture.  like
confusing Intel i7 with the x86 ISA.


> Also - I thought POWER was now on POWER9?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9


sounds right.  like how i386 != i686.

basically, we all need to get educated about this, quite quick, so thank
you for those links.

l.