rocks1985 Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 besides macs what else is ppc used for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac15 Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 Servers, IBM's Power line of chsip are in many high end servers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocks1985 Posted April 7, 2004 Author Share Posted April 7, 2004 Servers, IBM's Power line of chsip are in many high end servers can windows xp run on a computer with a ppc processor, natively Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamsINdigital Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 You can run some Linux distributions on PPC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XanDaMan Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Only through emulation...but why on earth would you want to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocks1985 Posted April 7, 2004 Author Share Posted April 7, 2004 NooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOnly through emulation...but why on earth would you want to. i figured people could just buy mac os x instead of buying an imac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XanDaMan Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 i figured people could just buy mac os x instead of buying an imac People can, to upgrade their previous MacOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 besides macs what else is ppc used for Hmm, lets see. It is used for embedded controllers quite often (including some of our recent space probes!), and IIRC, it is also used in the Game Cube. PPC chips are also used in the Pegasos computer, as well as the Briq. Just like the Motorolla 68K line of chips before it, they are used all over the place. I even worked on a radar when I was in the navy that was based on a Motorola 68000 CPU. edit: Oh, I left off one computer (that I know of). The BeBox was a dual processor PPC computer, but of course, they aren't made anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 can windows xp run on a computer with a ppc processor, natively The last version of Windows that had a PPC port was Beta 3 of Windows 2000. Windows NT 4 (and possibly 3.51, but I'm not positive on that) also had a PPC port. Unfortunately, these did not run on Mac hardware, only on CHRP certified hardware (mostly IBM's PPC computers). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galley Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 BeOS can (could) run on PPC chips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted April 7, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 7, 2004 PPC will be running the next XBox :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucko Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 True. Though the powerpc for Xbox Next and the Gamecube are just that, the cpu and a few other things, everything else is truely different. The XDK kits for Xbox Next are G5's though, thats kinda cool. Gentoo can run on powerpc I think, that would be interesting. You can't run MacOSX on a PC because the Mac's hardware is all digital and all PC hardware is anolog (as in signals and what not). That is why macs are so expensive, because it's all digital and very expensive stuff. Still I want to get my hands on that G5 in the animation room at college :):):) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japlabot Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 Erm I'm pretty certain that x86-32/64 is 100% digital... what the heck in them wouldn't be?? and the x-box will be running PPC??? What's your source on this? Also, I think that the Motorola line of surfboard cable modems are PPC, and I'm sure that (in theory) you could compile the kernel/boot manager in the stolen windows 2000 source-code to run on PPC couldn't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted April 7, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 7, 2004 You can't run MacOSX on a PC because the Mac's hardware is all digital and all PC hardware is anolog (as in signals and what not).That is why macs are so expensive, because it's all digital and very expensive stuff. Oh dear, you're in for it I'm afraid :no: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted April 7, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 7, 2004 and the x-box will be running PPC??? What's your source on this? http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories....+2003,+09:00+AM http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14407 You didn't know this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted April 7, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 7, 2004 You can't run MacOSX on a PC because the Mac's hardware is all digital and all PC hardware is anolog (as in signals and what not).That is why macs are so expensive, because it's all digital and very expensive stuff. Sorry, but analog computing isn't on the desktop yet. It's pretty much research-only at this point and doesn't have that much of a future anyways. The reason you can't emulate PPC on x86 (and therefore not run OS X on a PC) is mainly because of the number of registers on each CPU type. A register is basically a *really* fast memory slot for the CPU to temporarily store something. Your RAM, while tons faster than a hard disk, isn't all that fast, so the processor uses registers to do calculations without waiting on RAM all the time. The PPC instruction set defines more registers than the x86 instruction set (I know I'm off, but I think it's something like 32 General Purpose registers versus 8). Becuase of this, you can't fit the extra registers in PPC into the one that x86 provides. So, where do you store them? Uber slow memory, of course! Unfortunately, that's the big shortcoming in emulating PPC on x86. It's kind of like fitting a square peg into a round hole, and the square peg is 4 times the size of the hole :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symbiotic Hat Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 You can't run MacOSX on a PC because the Mac's hardware is all digital and all PC hardware is anolog (as in signals and what not).That is why macs are so expensive, because it's all digital and very expensive stuff. That may be the most incorrect statement ever made. DC/AC circuits is a good class. Look into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smit Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 I could be mistaken but I think the Mars rovers are running a version of the PPC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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