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@allison@hidamari.apartments @atlas_core@pl.starnix.network @YTFoidLover1488@poa.st >something like ARC

You can actually boot and run ARC on those machines, while Motorola had the ARC in ROM if you flashed it, like some of the Alphas did. It's just like with ARC on Alpha/MIPS, only used for Windows NT.

Someone on fedi was trying to port Windows NT to PowerBooks using something like this.

But there's old IBM documents explaining CHRP and PReP where the goal was to actually have a universal PPC box that would run Windows, MacOS, and UNIX and could be tweaked. Of course the problem is it was IBM and this was the 90s when Intel was breaking every antitrust law in the book to gain dominance, on top of Microsoft absolutely insisting that computers ran Windows and Apple being controlling of a cloning program that was already under pressure from MS.

I heard the last reason is why the only Mac clones were built by a startup, Pioneer (who normally didn't make computers), the CPU vendor for Macs, and Mac accessory vendors (UMAX, Radius, and DayStar were Mac accessory vendors). Also every Mac clone was based on a pre-existing Mac model, including the Tanzania design (which was designed to among other things, work with PC floppy drives and had PS/2 and VGA ports on clones).