Apple 7100/80AV Manuale Utente

 

 Basics

Power Macintosh System Overview - 3

 

Compatibility is not limited just to applications. INITs, 

CDEVs, drivers, and other Macintosh utility software also 

work on PowerPC processor-based Macintosh systems. So do 

AppleTalk devices (such as printers), SCSI devices (such as 

hard drives and scanners), ADB devices (such as mice, 

trackballs, and keyboards), and other Macintosh cards and 

peripherals.

The primary operating system for PowerPC processor-

based Macintosh computers is System 7. The operating 

system has been optimized for the highest performance on 

the PowerPC processor. This optimization of System 7 

benefits applications written for 680x0 systems as well as 

those developed specifically for PowerPC processor-based 

systems.

And while PowerPC-based Macintosh systems running 

native applications offer two to four times the performance