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I'm poking around an old Windows NT PowerPC executable and trying to understand how the r2 register is initialized on startup. Looking at the entry point of the program, I see the following code: mflr ...
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Edit: I suddenly realized that I can write a C Hello World and look at the disassembled code if I have the tool. I'll see what I get. I'm trying to write a simple Hello World program using an iBook G4 ...
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In a blog entry at The Old New Thing, Raymond Chen states that Windows NT first started supporting the 603 and 604 series of PowerPC processors. Was there a specific firmware version which was needed ...
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I am trying to assemble a timeline of PowerPC series processors. It is complicated by the fact that there were multiple manufacturers. So far I have: IBM POWER 1990 POWER1 1992 RSC 1993 POWER2 1998 ...
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I’ve got a 2005 PowerMac G5, Dual 2.3 GHz with a stock Nvidia GeForce 6600 running OSX 10.4 Tiger that I enjoy experimenting with, purely for fun and to learn writing legacy software in XCode. Would ...
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I own a Macintosh Performa 360 and 420 with a 250 MB drive. Currently I plan about migrating to a modern system like Windows Linux or Mac. I could make sure, that I can still read my data, copied to a ...
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Intel invented the original 32/64-bit PCI bus in the early 1990s to replace the decade old ISA bus used in PC's. It was immediately popular (in comparison to Micro Channel or EISA), being both faster ...
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I have a PowerMac G5 which I have recently succeeded in getting running with a Mac OS X 10.4. I was in for two big surprises: Firstly, the computer runs very fast, even with heavier software like an ...
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Apple created a dynamic binary translator called Rosetta and bundled it into their OS X operating system. As of OS 10.7, however, Rosetta was removed, and PowerPC applications are no longer supported ...
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I have some disc images that run only on PowerPC. I've heard a lot about PowerPC being popular back in the day, especially being used with older Apple computers. I don't hear much about them anymore, ...
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