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Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:
Yasu wrote:
Excuse me, but what is the point of PPC in 2014, really?
There are no consumer products anymore that uses them since both the Playstation and X-Box have abandoned it. This means that no matter what anyone do, any consumer computer using PPC will be very very expensive. Maybe price isn't a problem for high end servers and such, but today when you can get a nice enough intel computer for a couple of hundred euros/dollars, why would anyone want to invest in a computer where the CPU alone costs several hundred euros/dollars (except for a handful of rich computer nerds)?
Several hundred?
The one I'm looking at starts at around $150.
What's the point?
Simple, its compatible with our current ISA.
And there is no shortage of OS' for X86 or ARM, PPC for the end user is now pretty much ours.
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