[Power.org:parch] cpu nodes and Power ISA categories

[Dan Hettena]

> > That would be fine if powerpc were changed to power.
> 
> Um.. why?  I thought the name of the actual architecture was "PowerPC"
> and that "power" was just an IBM brand name (where POWER3 and later in
> the line are PowerPC architecture compliant).

"Power" has been the name of the architecture ever since 2.03.

"PowerPC" was the name of the Server architecture only through 2.02 (and also of the original AIM architecture). AFAIK, all new implementations of the Power Architecture outside IBM's 4xx line avoid using the "PowerPC" name.

Dan