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Old 13th November 2008
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Originally Posted by nfries88 View Post
We're on the same page here.
I'll have to look into those emulators though, seems like I could make use of them. If I'm correct all of those are most commonly used in mobile devices? Know of any SPARC emulators?
You are obviously very young guy SGI (Silicon Graphics) high end
graphics Unix stations and servers were using MIPS until last year. We older people see MIPS as the best processor architecture for computers but reality is that you are right and that MIPS and ARM are today mostly used in embedded devices (which is well over 80% of processor market).
PPC is IBM although MAC also used to be MAC PPC. PPC processor used in MACs are manufactured by IBM but they are different processor architecture then IBM PPC used in servers.

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