I've seen 'endian' tossed around here and in the MAME 'what's new', so I thought I'd look it up. It referenced many things, which I followed also, one of them being RISC processors. The following is a snippet from that page:
IBM learned from the RT-PC failure and went on to design the RS/6000 based on their new POWER architecture. They then moved their existing AS/400 systems to POWER chips, and found much to their surprise that even the very complex instruction set ran considerably faster. POWER would also find itself moving "down" in scale to produce the PowerPC design, which eliminated many of the "IBM only" instructions and created a single-chip implementation. Today the PowerPC is one of the most commonly used CPUs for automotive applications (some cars have more than 10 of them inside). It was also the CPU used in most Apple Macintosh machines from 1994 to 2006. (Starting in February 2006, Apple switched their main production line to Intel x86 processors.)
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