User:Torpcoms

Same person as torpcoms on the Level1Techs forums, RCS Wiki, Github, Reddit, Diaspora (diasp.org server), GNU Social (gnusocial.no server), probably some other places as well.

Consider anything I write to be in the Public Domain and/or CC0.

Timelines for POWER


The Power ISA evolved from the PowerPC ISA which in turn was an evolution of the POWER ISA used by POWER1 and POWER2 chips.

POWER ISA → PowerPC ISA → Power ISA

When the Power ISA 3.0B specification lists all available instructions, it specifically mentions what version of which architecture introduced the instruction; this gives a fairly quick history of the ISA itself: