AIM was an alliance formed in 1991 between Apple Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is a Silicon Valley company based in Cupertino, California, whose core business is computer technologies. Apple helped start the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with its Apple II and shaped it in the 1980s and since with the Macintosh. Apple is known for innovative... Apple Computer, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) (NYSE: IBM) (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, and services. With over 330,000 employees worldwide and revenues of $96 billion (figures from 2004... IBM and Motorola started as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1928. The name of the company was changed to Motorola in 1947, but the word had been used as a trademark since the 1930s. The company is based in Schaumburg, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. Founder Paul Galvin came up with the name Motorola... Motorola to create a new computing standard based on the PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created by the 1991 Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance, known as AIM. The PowerPC was the CPU portion of the overall AIM platform, and is the only part to exist to date. History The history of the PowerPC begins with IBMs 801 prototype chip... PowerPC architecture.

The stated goal of the alliance was to challenge the dominant Wintel is a colloquial, often pejorative, term used to describe desktop computers of the type commonly used in homes and businesses since the late 1980s (these are PC compatible computers running a version of Microsoft Windows). The term is a concatenation of Windows (Microsofts operating environment) and Intel (the... Wintel computing platform with a new computer design and a next-generation In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. Additionally, it provides a foundation upon which to run application software such as word processing programs and web browsers. In general, the operating system is the first... operating system. It was thought that the A Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) is an instruction set architecture (ISA) in which each instruction can indicate several low-level operations, such as a load from memory, an arithmetic operation, and a memory store, all in a single instruction. The term was coined in contrast to Reduced Instruction Set... CISC processors from Intel were an evolutionary dead-end in Microprocessors, including an Intel 80486DX2 and an Intel 80386 A microprocessor (abbreviated as µP or uP) is an electronic computer central processing unit (CPU) made from miniaturized transistors and other circuit elements on a single semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) (aka microchip or just chip). Before the advent of microprocessors, electronic... microprocessor design, and that since This article is about the computer architecture. For other uses see: RISC (disambiguation) Reduced (or regular) instruction set computer (or Computing) (RISC), is a computer CPU design philosophy that favors a smaller and simpler set of instructions that all take about the same amount of time to execute. Most types... RISC was the future, the next few years were a period of great opportunity.

The CPU was the PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created by the 1991 Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance, known as AIM. The PowerPC was the CPU portion of the overall AIM platform, and is the only part to exist to date. History The history of the PowerPC begins with IBMs 801 prototype chip... PowerPC, a single-chip version of IBM's POWER is a RISC CPU architecture designed at IBM. The name, arguably, stands for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC. POWER series CPUs are used as the main CPU in many of IBMs servers, minicomputers, workstations, and supercomputers. The POWER architecture was used to develop (and remains very similar to... POWER1 CPU. Both IBM and Motorola would manufacture PowerPC chips for this new platform.

The computer architecture base was called PReP (for PowerPC Reference Platform), and later named CHRP (for Common Hardware Reference Platform). PReP was in fact a barely-modified version of IBM's existing The IBM pSeries, formerly called RS/6000 (for RISC System/6000), is IBMs current RISC/UNIX-based workstation computer line. Announced in 1990, the RS/6000 replaced the RT-PC. It is based on the IBM POWER CPU architecture and runs the AIX operating system and more recently the... RS/6000 platform, changed only to support the new bus style of the PowerPC.

Apple and IBM created two new companies called Taligent was the name of an object-oriented operating system and the company dedicated to producing it. Today, both are gone. What would eventually become Taligent started in a roundabout way in 1988. After Apple Computers latest effort to develop a new Macintosh had culminated in the Macintosh II... Taligent and Kaleida Labs was a company founded by IBM and Apple Computer in 1991 as part of their AIM alliance. The company was to create a new cross-platform multimedia programming language called ScriptX which was to be a way for developers to harness the power of the AIM alliances... Kaleida as part of the alliance. Taligent was formed from a core team of Apple software engineers to create a next-generation operating system, code-named "Pink", to run on the platform. Kaleida was to create an object-oriented, cross-platform multimedia scripting language which would enable developers to create entirely new kinds of applications that would harness the power of the platform.

Efforts on the part of Motorola and IBM to popularize PReP/CHRP failed when Apple, IBM, and Taligent all failed to provide an operating system that could run on it. Although the platform was eventually supported by several UNIX® (or Unix) is a portable, multi-task and multi-user computer operating system originally developed by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. History As is often the case with developments that go on to become highly popular and... Unix flavours as well as Windows NT is an operating system produced by Microsoft. It is the ancestor of their current flagship Windows XP. Development When development started in 1988, Windows NT was to be known as OS/2 3.0, the third version of the operating system developed jointly by Microsoft and IBM. In... Windows NT, these In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. Additionally, it provides a foundation upon which to run application software such as word processing programs and web browsers. In general, the operating system is the first... operating systems generally ran just as well on The following article is about the multinational corporation; intel is also an abbreviation for intelligence, used in reference to military intelligence and espionage. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) (founded 1968) is a US-based multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. Intel also... Intel-based hardware so there was little reason to use the PReP systems. The The BeBox was a short-lived dual processor PC, offered by Be, Incorporated to run their own operating system, BeOS. After initial prototypes with two AT&T Hobbit processors and three DSPs, the machines were fitted with two PowerPC 603e processors running at 66MHz. Of particular note were... BeBox, designed to run Screenshot of a BeOS system running several multimedia applications simultaneously; a CPU meter shows load spread across two processors BeOS is an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Incorporated in 1990. A highly modular OS written in completely new code (and not based on UNIX, a... BeOS, used some PReP hardware but as a whole was not compatible with the standard.

Kaleida folded in 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It was the first year of the International Decade of the Worlds Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www.unesco.org/culture/indigenous/ Events January January 1 Austria, Finland and Sweden enter the European Union Fred West, accused... 1995. Taligent folded in 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. Events January January 1998 - A massive ice storm, caused by El Niño, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting in widespread power failures, severe damage to... 1998. Some CHRP machines shipped in 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef. Events January January 3 - NBCs Today Show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time January 8 - Mister Rogers receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame... 1997 and 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. Events January January 1998 - A massive ice storm, caused by El Niño, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting in widespread power failures, severe damage to... 1998 to no fanfare. The PowerPC program was the one success that came out of the AIM alliance; Apple started using PowerPC chips in their Macintosh, also known as Mac, is a family of personal computers manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc. of Cupertino, California, USA. Named after the McIntosh, a type of apple favoured by Jef Raskin, the Macintosh was launched in January 1984 with a famous Super Bowl commercial. It was the first computer... Macintosh line starting in 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. Events January January 1 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect January 6 - Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from... 1994, and the chips continue to find success in the embedded market as well. In 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. Pascal Couchepin becomes President of the Confederation in... 2003, after disappointing performance increases from Motorola, Apple turned to IBM to provide PowerPC chips for its new G5 desktop computers.

In November 2003, a cluster of 1100 Apple Power Mac G5 computers, using 2 IBM PPC970 processors each, won the third rank in the TOP500 (www.top500.org) is a website founded in 1993 which assembles and maintains a list of the 500 most powerful computer systems in the world (i.e. the worlds 500 leading supercomputers), based on the LINPACK benchmark. The data on the website was originally copied directly from the... Top 500 of the world's fastest supercomputers.