common hardware reference platform
(foldoc) | PowerPC Platform
CHRP
Common Hardware Reference Platform
PowerPC Reference Platform
PPCP
(PPCP, PReP - PowerPC Reference
Platform, formerly CHRP - Common Hardware Reference Platform)
An open system standard, designed by IBM, intended to ensure
compatibility among PowerPC-based systems built by different
companies. The PReP standard specifies the PCI bus, but
will also support ISA, MicroChannel and PCMCIA.
PReP-compliant systems will be able to run the Macintosh OS,
OS/2, WorkplaceOS, AIX, Solaris, Taligent and
Windows NT. IBM systems will (of course) be PReP-compliant.
Apple's first PowerPC Macintoshes will not be compliant,
but future ones may be.
{IBM info
(http://fnctsrv0.chips.ibm.com/products/ppc/L3ppcp.html)}.
(http://billboard.emedia.com.au/chipster/computers/CHRP/whatsCHRP.html).
[Current OS statuses?]
(1997-03-23)
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