Ars Technica has an article on the beginning of the PowerPC era with the usual coverage on CPU internals and the involvement of Apple.
History of the PowerPC architecture
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I for one read the article and thought that it was informative. I think that the powerpc arch is very interesting and am glad to see some one give an overview of 601-604e thanks
I actually read the article yesterday, found it on ars because I am a regular reader. I’m a regular reader simply because I love their hardware reviews, especially CPU stuff. I’ve always found them to be a helpful source of some shallow knowledge on CPU optimizations.
The article was very good. Although I really wish he’d do a good review of Alpha. Does anyone know where I can find some good documents on what seperates Alpha from the rest? I’ve heard from several people that it was an amazing architecture.
I second your comments about this being an interesting article. (I just read the ones about the Pentium, to have the whole background).
Personally I’m looking forward to the next article where he looks at the G3 series of processors. Having seen a G3 with a lower clock speed execute faster than a 604e, I’m interested in finding out why.
KadyMae – It depends on the transaction per cycle. If you have 2 transactions per cycle you can have slower clock speed but still get more done. Kind of like dealing two playing cards to each person (obvoiusly not legal) you can be faster without going as fast.
Hannibal does a good job – as usual.
His series on the Pentium was very interesting also.
My only criticism is: move the references and links to the end.
I will have to read the one on Pentium. I don’t even own a pentium currently, just AMD and a G3.
He has interesting articles on athlon as well.