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@YTFoidLover1488@poa.st @atlas_core@pl.starnix.network It was supposed to mean PowerPC Reference Platform, and was designed far before the drugs came out.

The idea was to make a PC but with a PowerPC CPU in it, and it failed because only IBM/Moto built hardware with it and Apple rejected it. CHRP was the successor (and what modern PPC hardware is based on, to some extent with hypervisors and all leading to PowerNV coming out as yet another PPC standard for Linux only boxes).

Yet CHRP was only used by IBM, because Apple also stonewalled the release of machines adherent to it until Steve Jobs came back, PPC Macs had their own weird Open Firmware implementation, and when IBM made the latest OpenPOWER push they chose to create yet another standard that was "bare metal" and not hypervisored like IBM hardware and the Xbox 360/PS3 are, hence PowerNV.