Science Fair Project Encyclopedia The stated goal of the
alliance was to challenge the dominant Wintel computing platform
with a new computer design and a next-generation operating
system. It was thought that the CISC processors from Intel were
an evolutionary dead-end in microprocessor design, and that
since RISC was the future, the next few years were a period of
great opportunity. The computer architecture base was called
PReP (for PowerPC Reference Platform), and later named CHRP (for
Common Hardware Reference Platform). PReP was in fact a barely-
modified version of IBM's existing RS/6000 platform, changed
only to support the new bus style of the PowerPC. Apple and IBM
created two new companies called Taligent and Kaleida as part of
the alliance. Taligent was formed from a core team of Apple
software engineers to create a next-generation operating system,
code-named "Pink", to run on the platform. Kaleida was to create
an object-oriented, cross-platform multimedia scripting language
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