Talk:Power Architecture

message: Ok.. the debate continues. Mr 68.15.20.63 seems to have quite a dim view of this. Let's hear what IBM have to say since they ought to know. Quote from ibm.com/power:
"About Power Architecture: It’s PowerPC, POWER4, POWER5."
–– Aha! Both POWER and PowerPC is Power Architecture.. who would have known? Wait! I want so learn more. Let's follow the link! Learn more
"Power Architecture™ technology is an instruction-set architecture that spans applications from consumer electronics to supercomputers. Power Architecture encompasses PowerPC®, POWER4™ and POWER5™ processors."
––Aha! There we have it again! Power Architecture is PowerPC AND POWER. Still not convinced? What about all the other POWER processors, and Cell? What about it? Let's continue digging. Let's follow the link New to Power Architecture technology.  <-- Even Power.org links to this page.
====What different kinds of processors are based on the Power Architecture platform?====
"Power Architecture family members are stealthy chips, and they like to go by many different names. They can be hard to keep track of because they don't all use the Power or PowerPC trademark." and "..the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell BE) processor (which is to power the upcoming Sony PlayStation 3.."' and  "The chips in the POWER line are numbered 1 through 5, with POWER6™ anticipated somewhat soonish.".
––So.. Processors are called "Power" and "PowerPC". And "Cell Broadband Engine" and even POWER1 through POWER6, anticipated soonish. Check.. I've included all those in the Power Architecture.
====What machines are based on Power Architecture processors?====
"While the POWER line of chips is found only in high-performance servers and workstations from IBM, PowerPC chips are found in everything from embedded devices to supercomputers." and "Contrary to popular belief, IBM mainframes (or "System z™ ") are not based around Power Architecture technology."
––Well.. I did know the latter, and that's why you won't see any mentioning of z9 or Series z anywhere on Power Architecture pages on Wikipedia.
There you have it! Power Architecture is PowerPC, it is POWER and it is Cell. Just as I write it, but not as 68.15.20.63 would want you to believe. Hey.. don't take my word for it, take IBM's. Wikipedia is not a place to do original work. Go to the sources. I think they know best. What do you think, Mr 68.15.20.63? -- Henriok 22:16, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is Power Architecture? 

message: "While the POWER line of chips is found only in high-performance servers and workstations from IBM, PowerPC chips are found in everything from embedded devices to supercomputers." and "Contrary to popular belief, IBM mainframes (or "System z™ ") are not based around Power Architecture technology."
––Well.. I did know the latter, and that's why you won't see any mentioning of z9 or Series z anywhere on Power Architecture pages on Wikipedia.
There you have it! Power Architecture is PowerPC, it is POWER and it is Cell. Just as I write it, but not as 68.15.20.63 would want you to believe. Hey.. don't take my word for it, take IBM's. Wikipedia is not a place to do original work. Go to the sources. I think they know best. What do you think, Mr 68.15.20.63? -- Henriok 22:16, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: What machines are based on Power Architecture processors?

message: Why must the article go over the history of the 801, POWER, PowerPC, PowerPC AS and the various implementations of each ISA? Why not go over the history of CISC as well? Surely the 801 was developed as a result of the analysis of complex architectures. This article only needs to state that the origins of the Power ISA are in the POWER architecture. The history of the Power ISA starts in 2006, when IBM and Freescale collaborated on Power ISA 2.03. Anything else before then is irrelevant and deserves mention in a footnote. Any comments or objections before I begin removing content covered elsewhere? Rilak (talk) 12:35, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Massive redundancy 

message: The 2.06 specification link is broken, 2.06B_V2 is the new version.
http://www.power.org/resources/downloads/PowerISA_V2.06B_V2_PUBLIC.pdf  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.12.219.122 (talk) 15:22, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken link 

message: The "Specifications" section speaks of, for example, "Cores that comply with the Power ISA v.2.03" being compliant with the Power ISA v.2.04 as well.  Presumably this means that:
* v.2.04 didn't introduce any non-backwards-compatible changes (e.g., changing an instruction opcode, or removing an instruction);
* any new features introduced in v.2.04 aren't required parts of the v.2.04 spec, so that a v.2.03 processor is v.2.04-compliant but omits those optional features.
Is that correct for all the versions of the spec listed in that section? Guy Harris (talk) 23:55, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, this seems to be a correct assumption according to what I have gathered skimming through the documentation. -- Henriok (talk) 10:46, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conformance and {backwards,forwards} compatibility 

message: So far I have not found any articles listing Power Architecture hardware and operating systems. If they exist, they must be linked to this Power Architecture article. In Correct (talk) 00:07, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: How do you do the link? For instance, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_single-board_computers on wikipedia has an entry for the PPC "P-Cubed" single board computer. 71.200.57.8 (talk) 02:31, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: All you have to do is surround the title of the article with brackets.    In Correct (talk) 03:21, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  List of single board computers In Correct (talk) 03:21, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: "List Of" Articles

message: I never heard about OS/2 running on POWER CPUs....OS/2 uses the 4 privilege levels of the protected mode of IA-32 - and this is not available on POWER. --93.220.218.110 (talk) 17:06, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Workplace OS, which had an OS/2 personality and ran on both x86 and PPC, didn't use them; perhaps it ran the non-ring-0 and non-ring-3 stuff as server processes. Guy Harris (talk) 20:30, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  OS/2 

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replies: text: That document appears to have disappeared down the memory hole at power.org - and the Wayback Machine is collaborating with them, by redirecting the 2009 archived URL to that 2011 archived URL, which doesn't work.  I just nuked the reference entirely. Guy Harris (talk) 07:06, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Currently the articles summary has a line saying More details and documentation on the Power Architecture can be found on the IBM Portal for OpenPOWER. with the latter part linking to the official website. To me this sounds like a teaser with an action for advertisement and that's nothing I'd expect to have in an article. Such information should go into the Eternal Links section of maybe into the site box if it really can be considered an official website of the architecture (I am not sure about how much Power and OpenPOWER relate). Otherwise the summary feels like an (informative) ad, especially because the expected encyclopedic details are supposed to be reached by scrolling down rather than going to the company website.--Athaba (talk) 10:56, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "More details and documentation..." 

message: There's a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing#Power Architecture on Wikipedia about this article. 99Electrons (talk) 00:10, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Power Architecture on Wikipedia