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		saati on May 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac... That's POWER, a different ISA, there are still some PowerPC embedded cpus but it's just slowly dying.

leecarraher on May 21, 2021 [–]

true, was just going off the debian package architecture naming PPC/ppc64el

astrange on May 22, 2021 | [–]

Power and PowerPC are essentially the same ISA, I don’t know what that post has a problem with.

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