The first-generation PowerPC desktop systems from Apple and IBM have arrived. They offer blazing performance and unique features at affordable prices. The downside? Few native applications, slow software emulation, and unfinished system software.
- by Tom Thompson and Bob Ryan
PowerMac vs other RISC systems on Windows emulation
While Apple's Power Macs repres
ent a tremendous technical achievement in providing compatibility with the existing software base, the question everyone will ask is: How fast are they?
- by Tom Thompson
One critical area where IBM's Power Personal Systems D
ivision is providing key technologies to operating-system vendors and ISVs (independent software vendors) is in value-added software extensions that take advantage of the capabilities of the PowerPC processor.
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