architecture, standard (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
PReP-compliant systems will be able to run the
Macintosh OS,
Windows NT. IBM systems will (of course) be PReP-compliant.
but future ones may be.
[Current OS statuses?]
(1997-03-23)