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Word: powermac (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Usage:

...AirPort base station, a little UFO-like device that plugs into your phone line, acts as an Internet radio transmitter. Your iBook, iMac or G4 PowerMac loaded with an AirPort card can be online (or hooked together) anywhere in your home, without wires, at 56k connection speeds (AirPort also supports superspeedy cable modems or DSL). Since normal wireless connections creep along at 9,600 bps, this is nothing short of revolutionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stuck in an AirPort | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...CISC's major problem is that a processor which allows many instructions is difficult to design and difficult to speed up; RISC chips are easier to develop and easier to speed up. The RISC architecture, however, requires greater memory and hard disk space than the CISC architecture, as most PowerMac owners will readily attest...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: tech TALK | 5/17/1995 | See Source »

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