Word: powerpcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonderful it would be if Microsoft Windows, the Mac OS and even UNIX operating systems could all run on the same PowerPC platform. Users could pick and choose from the best of the rich treasure of software applications and tools that are now in separate operating-system camps. BRIAN BLACKMORE Millburn...
Microsoft has managed to co-opt nearly everything. Yet as I sit facing my friendly Macintosh PowerPC and my nondescript IBM clone equipped with Windows 95, I know that only one of these machines has a soul. Rob Parsons Sitka, Alaska...
Combine Apple's new operating systems with the PowerPC hardware--which by mid-1997 will run at twice the speed of Intel's fastest offering--and it is easy to see that Apple is not dying. Indeed, amid all the furor over Apple's reputed downfall in the past six months, sales of Mac O.S. computers are up 60 percent from their levels a year ago. --Mike J.B. Epstein...
...first release of RealAudio, there are some problems with the quality of RealVideo broadcasts, and sites frequently don't work quite right. In fact, video takes up so much band width that you have to have an ISDN or direct connection (like our Harvard connectivity) and a Pentium or PowerPC-based computer...
...brand--defines the type of computer on your desk, although some brand-names are strongly linked to a microprocessor--for example, Macintosh is linked to both Motorola's 68000 and the PowerPC chip. When the computer store salesperson says that a computer conforms to the IBM PC standard or is Windows compatible, he or she is really referring to the computer's microprocessor...