PowerPC Platform
<architecture, standard> (PPCP, PReP - PowerPC Reference Platform,
formerly CHRP - Common Hardware Reference Platform) An open system standard,
designed by IBM, intended to ensure compatibility among PowerPC-based systems
built by different companies. The PReP standard specifies the PCI bus, but will
also support ISA, MicroChannel and PCMCIA.
PReP-compliant systems will be able to run the Macintosh OS, OS/2, WorkplaceOS,
AIX, Solaris, Taligent and Windows NT. IBM systems will (of course) be
PReP-compliant. Apple's first PowerPC Macintoshes will not be compliant, but
future ones may be.
IBM info.
http://billboard.emedia.com.au/chipster/computers/CHRP/whatsCHRP.html.
[Current OS statuses?]
(1997-03-23)
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