What's a real G5 anyway?

[DethKnight]

Another link for the truly pedantic

http://arstechnica.com/cpu/03q1/ppc970/ppc970-0.html

includes such things as;

When news of the 970 first hit the Web, there was considerable confusion about the status of the Altivec instruction set and its relationship to both Motorola and IBM. I'll go ahead and clear that up now, for anyone who's still confused. The SIMD instruction set known as "Altivec" was co-developed by both IBM and Motorola, so it's co-owned by both of them. Motorola has a trademark on the "Altivec" name, so in most of IBM's literature (but not all) the instruction set is referred to as VMX, presumably for "vector multimedia extensions." So VMX and Altivec are two different names for the same group of 162 vector instructions added to the PowerPC ISA.