The PowerPC Macintosh Book

Starting with a brief history of the PowerPC chip's development by the alliance of Apple, IBM and Motorola, this book gives software and hardware overviews of the PowerPC Mac, followed by an introduction to RISC processors. It then describes PowerPC Mac's emulator technology that allows maximum compatability and high-speed emulation for existing Mac applications. The software and hardware are then described in more technical depth. The next part describes the migration paths for users and developers. This is followed by information about the future of the PowerPC Macintosh line, including emerging operating environments that will run on the PowerPC Mac.