Apple's transition to the PowerPC processor, which began publicly in 1994, began in an IBM lab in the mid seventies. Read about Apple's move to RISC at Low End Mac.
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RE: Mouse without the "click"?
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I came to Mac at about OS 7.5 on a spangly new 8500 with a massive 92Mb of Ram (yes i think that was huge in 96!) I think my first step into tweaking Mac stuff was finding a shareware/freeware that removed the extra 68k stuff to get the extra k .....arh never mind the space of a 2Gb Hd and 650 Mb optical drive...
maybe k counting to fight fat may be back in vogue? with all our apps putting on weight in the next couple of years!
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with the new fatter-than-ever-before "Universal" binaries, many apps will be puffier vs. slimmer.
of course, puffier apps helps the hardware upgrade treadmill work, so apple and others are happy.
until human beings focus on value vs. revenue and look at total cost vs. artificial short-term cost numbers there will be no signficant improvement in computers when it comes to resource usage or efficiency.
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Eh, sure the file sizes for the executable part of the application will be doubled or so, but that's it. It won't really make things slower, cuz only the needed part will be loaded in memory, and used by the CPU. The only thing it will do, is take up more hard drive space, but not much more since multimedia assets (video, graphics, audio) take up the majority of space, not the executable part of a program.
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Performance had topped out. Motorola did not have enough customers to keep developing better 68K chips. Better architectures came along and stomped Moto.
The fact that Apple went with PowerPC instead of Intel was one of the big decisions that doomed Apple to low market share.
Now that Apple has finally realized the error of their ways and will be on Intel shortly, it will be interesting to see what market share they can recapture.
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These stories are a mix of surprizingly detailed facts and surprizingly innacurate information. The "Carl Sagan" code (and BHA name which followed) name was for a version of the Apple Newton, not a PowerPC Macintosh. There are other completely wrong parts too - caveat emptor.
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