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Power Macintosh System Overview - 2

 

Previously, RISC technology had been used only in high-end 

workstations and commercial database servers. With the 

introduction of Macintosh PowerPC computers, Apple 

succeeded in bringing RISC technology to personal 

computing.

 

Three key points to remember about a PowerPC processor-

based Macintosh system: It's a Macintosh; it's compatible; it 

offers tremendous performance.

Apple's PowerPC computers feature the same user interface 

as their 680x0-based predecessors. Users can mix RISC-

based and 680x0-based Macintosh systems on the same net-

work and exchange files and disks between them. In addition, 

users can run both 680x0 and native PowerPC applications 

on the same Power Macintosh system simultaneously.