@Hammer

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Hammer wrote: @matthey Quote: PPC is dead and it is not coming back. PPC is still alive via big corporate R&D.

PowerPC is dead, since it lacks a roadmap for new chips since 15 years ca..

If you mean IBM's POWER, then it's a different thing and the OpenPOWER consortium was a desperate move to attract other resources, which brought to nothing. So, even this architecture has essentially no future (e.g.: it'll still be developed to run the existing software, exactly like IBM's Z architecture).
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Quote: The 68k has a better chance of coming back from the dead. Unlikely with NXP's current 68060 IP control.

All patents have already expired, and new processors based on this ISA can certainly be designed and even sold, without knocking at NXP's door.

The same thing happened to Intel's (and AMD's) architectures up to Yonah: anyone can produce clones of them without asking any license to Intel (and AMD as well, up to 2005).

@bhabbott

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You mean undead, like 68k 'evolved' into the 68080 which 'lives' in an FPGA. Now we know why they called the card a Vampire.

That's an unofficial compatible clone.

There was a separation with the 68080 camp:
1. Gunar's Apollo Computers.
2. Majsta's Vampire V2.

My post is about Matt's pro-68060.

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