Mac transition to PowerPC processors: Difference between revisions

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{{Short description|Apple Macintosh transition from Motorola 68k to PowerPC processors}}

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| title = Mac transition to PowerPC processors

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| outcome = All [[Macintosh]] models migrated to [[PowerPC]] CPUs

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PowerPC Macs shipped with [[Mac 68k emulator|a built-in emulator]] that ran unmodified 68k code at about 60–70% of native 68040 performance.

Developers distributed [[Fat_binaryFat binary#Apple's_fat_binarys fat binary|fat binaries]] containing both 68k and PowerPC code, allowing a single application package to run on both architectures. Development tools and documentation from Apple enabled rapid developer adoption. By late 1995, most major Mac software had PowerPC-native versions.

== Aftermath ==

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[[Category:Macintosh platform]]

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