 The alliance yielded the launch of Taligent, Kaleida Labs, the highly successful PowerPC CPU family, the Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) hardware platform standard, and Apple's highly successful Power Macintosh computer line.From the 1980s into the 1990s, the computer industry was moving from a model of just individual personal computers toward an interconnected world, where no one company could afford to be vertically isolated anymore.