What in the world is a PPC

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  1. alexprice

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    i downloaded a game and it told me to copy it to the ppc and install it from there but i have no idea what a ppc is. im not on a laptop or nething so it just confuses me....so yea
     
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    Think they mean PC (Personal Computer) - its that box that is sitting in front of you.
     
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    I'd guess you've got a Pocket PC game there for a PDA. Could be wrong though...wouldn't be the first time :)

    Cheers
     
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    PPC is the chip in Apple computers for one, Power PC. It's not an Intel chip so software written for it will not run on a x86 box.
     
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    no...i have a non-portable Windows XP and i cant figure out wat to do
     
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    Software written for the PPC (Power PC) chip will [bold]NOT[/bold] run on Windows XP. They did make a PPC version of Windows NT 3.51 and NT 4 I believe but it will have to be run on PPC hardware not an Intel/AMD x86 box.
     
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    You are all wrong - me having the name Philip know that PPC means Philip's Pet Cat

    There is only one problem I have a dog called Ziggy.

    Of course Microsoft did come out with this Operating System for PDAs called Pocket PC 2000 & 2002 etc referred to as PPC but I prefer my definition!"
     
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