>The PowerPC chip is the evolution of IBM's POWER architecture, which has
>been the core of IBM's RS/6000 family. Oversimplified, PowerPC is what
>happened when Motorola and IBM merged POWER with m68k while retaining full
>backwards compatability with both. PowerPC_POWER3 is pretty much identical
>to PowerPC G3. I believe that the PowerPC_604 in some RS/6000s were never
>used in Macintoshes.
You left out the IBM iSeries (nee AS/400) computers-- they've been
using the Power/PC family of processors since the line went from CISC
to RISC about 10 (?) years ago.
--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn_at_ix.netcom.nospam.com
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