Amiga nerds aside, pre-2010 or so PowerPC used to be very common in high-robustness embedded stuff like automotive and aerospace. Dunno if it still is anymore. IBM mainframes still run on its cousin-once-removed, POWER.
I wonder where PowerPC is commonly used these days?
Some high-end embedded (other comment mentions i.e. things like RAD750), some network equipment (CorIQ), some declining HPC (IBM doesn’t really chase these anymore, and friendship ended with Nvidia), mostly high-end servers running IBM i, AIX, or Linux (IBM i has a lot more installed sites than AIX, but AIX sites tend to buy more and bigger hardware. I don’t have a good sense of who is using Power Linux in production.).
This is a pretty good survey of the issues.
I wonder where PowerPC is commonly used these days?
And ARM traditionally uses unsigned char, but Apple systems use signed char.
Amiga nerds aside, pre-2010 or so PowerPC used to be very common in high-robustness embedded stuff like automotive and aerospace. Dunno if it still is anymore. IBM mainframes still run on its cousin-once-removed, POWER.
Some high-end embedded (other comment mentions i.e. things like RAD750), some network equipment (CorIQ), some declining HPC (IBM doesn’t really chase these anymore, and friendship ended with Nvidia), mostly high-end servers running IBM i, AIX, or Linux (IBM i has a lot more installed sites than AIX, but AIX sites tend to buy more and bigger hardware. I don’t have a good sense of who is using Power Linux in production.).