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Microprocessors belonging to the PowerPC architecture family have been used in numerous applications. ==Personal Computers== Apple Computer was the dominant player in the market of personal computers based on PowerPC processors until 2006 when it switched to Intel-based processors. Apple used PowerPC processors in the Power Mac, iMac, eMac, PowerBook, iBook, Mac mini, and Xserve. Classic Macintosh accelerator boards using PowerPCs were made by DayStar Digital, Newer Technology, Sonnet Technologies, and TotalImpact. There have been several attempts to create PowerPC reference platforms for computers by IBM and others: The IBM PReP (PowerPC Reference Platform) is a system standard intended to ensure compatibility among PowerPC-based systems built by different companies; IBM POP (PowerPC Open Platform) is an open and free standard and design of PowerPC motherboards. Pegasos Open Desktop Workstation (ODW) is an open and free standard and design of PowerPC motherboards based on Marvell Discovery II (MV64361) chipset; PReP standard specifies the PCI bus, but will also support ISA, MicroChannel, and PCMCIA. PReP-compliant systems will be able to run OS/2, AIX, Solaris, Taligent, and Windows NT; and the CHRP (Common Hardware Reference Platform) is an open platform agreed on by Apple, IBM, and Motorola. All CHRP systems will be able to run Mac OS, OS/2-PPC, Windows NT, AIX, Solaris, Novell Netware. CHRP is a superset of PReP and the PowerMac platforms. Power.org has Power Architecture Platform Reference, PAPR, that provides the foundation for development of Power Architecture computers based on the Linux operating system. List of computers based on PowerPC: * Amiga accelerator boards: * * Phase5 Blizzard PPC. * * Phase5 CyberStorm PPC. * Apple * * iMac * * PowerMac * * Xserve * * Mac mini * * iBook * * PowerBook * Eyetech * * AmigaOne * Genesi * * Pegasos Open Desktop Workstation (ODW). * * EFIKA * IBM * * RS/6000 AIX workstations * ACube Systems Srl * * Sam440 (Samantha) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「PowerPC applications」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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