#PowerPC

[never-obsolete]

Computer Chronicles - The New PCs (1996)

[adafruit]

🎄💾🗓️ Day 10: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar - BeOS 🎄💾🗓️

BeOS, developed by Be Inc. in the mid-1990s, was an operating system for multimedia applications, multitasking, and multithreading. Initially designed for the BeBox—a proprietary hardware platform featuring dual PowerPC processors—BeOS was later ported to the Macintosh and x86 architectures. Its kernel was monolithic, and the system was primarily written in C++. It featured a 64-bit journaling Be File System (BFS), which supported metadata and allowed rapid file queries and fast performance for multimedia tasks. Despite its technical strengths, including support for symmetric multiprocessing and a responsive graphical user interface, BeOS struggled to gain market traction. Development ceased in 2001 after Palm Inc. acquired Be Inc.'s assets. BeOS continues through Haiku, an open-source project aiming for binary compatibility with BeOS R5.

A bunch of resources and links for this one!

🖥️💾🎨📀

Have first computer memories? Post’em up in the comments, or post yours on socialz’ and tag them #firstcomputer #retrocomputing – See you back here tomorrow!

[netscapenavigator-official]

I just read that Godot has an "unofficial" and "experimental" port for PowerPC Linux??? And, like, I'm always happy when modern software supports legacy hardware... but.... PowerPC?? On Linux???? Like, are there really enough PPC Linux devices out there to warrant support of a modern game engine??

[ui-alcoholic]

Apple PowerMac 8500 (1995)

The Power Macintosh 8500 is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from August 1995 to February 1997. Billed as a high-end graphics computer, the Power Macintosh 8500 was initially released with a 120 MHz PowerPC 604, and unlike earlier Power Macintosh machines, the CPU was mounted on an upgradeable daughtercard.

Though slower than the 132 MHz Power Macintosh 9500, the first-generation 8500 featured several audio and video (S-Video and composite video) in/out ports not found in the 9500. In fact, the 8500 incorporated near-broadcast quality (640×480) A/V input and output and was the first personal computer to do so, but no hard drive manufactured in 1997 could sustain the 18 MB/s data rate required to capture video at that resolution.

Later, special "AV" hard drives were made available that could delay thermal recalibration until after a write operation had completed. With special care to minimize fragmentation, these drives were able to keep up with the 8500's video circuitry.

[businessmemes]

If you are caught with a pirated leisure suit larry, king's quest, or wing commander cd-rom you will be terminated

[darth-azrael]

MacAddict (August 1997) 

[cyrohzin]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NINTENDO WII RUNS ON POWER PC MICRO ARCHITECTURE! 👀

There’s a blog hosted on a Wii that is a blog about this…

[archiveosorg]

MachTen

MachTen - an abandoned BSD subsystem for MacOS 9 and below on 68k and PowerPC-based Macintosh https://archiveos.org/machten/

[assembly-official]

Opinion on PowerPC?

Used in curiosity and perseverance, how can I not like Mars' computers?

[morerogue]

[tamara-kama]

Now that I setup my old Mac Mini PowerPC G4 here I went ahead and rearranged the decor on this side of the room! 💜🕹️😁👍🏻

Star Ceiling

[athena11778]

goals

1. like you know the people that roleplay being in the 1950s 24/7 ok that but with y2k and its just one room

2. make linux distro

3. do anything (i can)

4. new server

5. get powerpc mac (related to number one)

6. I will think of more later

[powerpcinside]

trying to find a (female) hair that looks unkempt but not stylized is... fun

[andresbravo2003]

The World’s first Real Gaming Router Computer

https://kittenlabs.de/real-gaming-router/

[goldom]

Today's NYT crossword asked for something like "bygone Apple computer" and I put POWERPC but it was actually IMACPRO. Even crosswords making me feel old now

[darth-azrael]

How I got my PowerPC Macs Crunching Tasks in BOINC Again