On 21/9/25 10:43 pm, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
You're probably right. I used that weird naming scheme as I was never 100% sure what the various baselines are. POWER is really complicated with many different architecture baselines with and without AltiVec and so on.
It hasn't helped the Power ISA. I recall wondering why Apple boot CDs only worked work on specific machines. At the time I thought Apple were doing it on purpose even though one CD to suit many machines made more sense to me. But the wrong CD would crash which I thought looked unprofessional. Only later when I had more experience with PPC and Linux with an AmigaOne/MAI Teron did I find out how bad the compatibility was.
Where as I grabbed a random Windows CD and it boots on every PC I threw it at. I suppose compatibility wasn't in the budget for PPC. They could have taken a leaf from 68K.
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