In the nineties, Apple's processor architecture was falling behind the competition. Motorola won a few battles, but Intel was winning the war. Enter IBM had a hot new architecture that could help both Apple and Motorola. Would they succeed in putting more Power into the Mac? And just how good were those first generation Power Macs anyway? Listen to find out.
Sources:
The Computer History Museum's Oral Histories of David Patterson, Gary Davidian, the SPARC Roundtable, the IBM 801 roundtable, and Dave Ditzel.
Apple Confidential
Apple-history.com
MacWorld
MacUser
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