Because POWER and PowerPC are trademarks of IBM. IBM do call all of their POWER4/5/6 and PowerPC (400, 440 series, 750 series) "POWER" processors under the "POWER" architecture.
It's a matter of if you licensed the trademark. -- Matt Sealey <matt at genesi-usa.com> Manager, Genesi, Developer Relations > -----Original Message----- > From: powerpc-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org > [mailto:powerpc-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ben > Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 11:14 AM > To: powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org > Subject: [powerpc-discuss] Re: I have a thought that I > wouldlike to persue. > > Just a quick question and something to think about: > > Why was the abreviation "PPC" chosen to represent the > architecture, instead of "power"? Isn't the PowerPC chip > just a smaller implementation of the Power arch? I'd think > that calling it power, instead of PPC would at least allude > to the fact that it could probably be coaxed into running on > big IBM hardware too, someday. > > At least in the Inferno world, (www.vitanuova.com/inferno) we > call it power, though that doesn't mean that it's ever run on > an anything but a PowerPC chip... > > Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying "change it now"... the > decision has already been made, and it's time to stick with > it. Just wondering what the reasoning was... > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > powerpc-discuss mailing list > powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org >
