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Is "Power 9" purposefully a Magic reference? Or just a coincidence?


The CPU architecture has been called POWER since 1990, and this is the 9th generation of it, hence POWER9.

MtG didn't come out until 1993. So yes, it's a co-incidence.


Or causation in the other direction.


A coincidence. This is referring to the 9th generation of IBM's POWER processors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_POWER_microprocessors




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