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From: Henning Heinold <heinold@inf.fu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: sprinkled references to "powerpc" vs "ppc" in adt-installer
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On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 04:11:15PM -0500, Bill Traynor wrote:
> On Dec 16, 2012 5:57 AM, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> >
> >   perusing adt-installer recipe and files and i notice there are a few
> > mentions of "powerpc" whereas it seems that "ppc" is the correct
> > architecture abbreviation.  obviously doesn't hurt anything but it
> > might be confusing for people reading the source.
> 
> Isn't the architecture just called Power now?

Nope, POWER is the midiron architecture from IBM, where POWERPC is a subset of POWER.

Bye Henning.