Processor architecture (why is this in this forum? who knows, who cares)

[Grok]

It would be interesting if the power pc support were still there. Hypathetically, if windows xp could run on power pc, would that mean one could put windows xp on a mac since they are on the IBM chips?

Well, to understand Power PC support, you have to understand history.  Back in those days (1995-2000), (much less 2000 than 1995), IBM OS/2 WARP was a significant threat to Windows operating system.  It was your only great GUI-based application server that was fully 32-bit.  Much of the corporate world ran enterprise class application servers on OS2 Warp.

That in mind, Microsoft wanted NT to be seen as a platform-independent choice.  Write your programs for Win32, use them on any hardware you want!  OS/2's demise, and the rise of Java, changed the way people and companies think about platform independence.  So OS platform mobility was no longer a big deal.  If you wanted application portability, you wrote in Java.  And still do.

P.S.  I think there was also talk of writing it for Motorola CPU, but do not know if that was ever finished.  That would cover your Macs of those days.  68000-class motorola cpus.

[quasi-modo]

I thought powerpc was developed by ibm and motorola, a joint venture.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/PowerPC.html