On 7/7/09 1:59 AM, tortoise at <cymraeg...@gmail.com> wrote: > It was true back then. Problem was all the old 68k code in the old > MacOS.
Here's the problem. When Spindler launched the PowerMacs, though "icredible velocity" was promised, the reality was that the machines were mere slow "Quadra emulators" that made one or another task more quickly than their predecessors. In fact, many people said the PowerMacs only completely surpassed the performance quality of the Quadras in 1997, when Mac OS 8 was released three years after the last Quadra was produced! The OS-chip harmony just came back in 1997/1998, when the G3s (designed intrernally to work with the Mac OS) substituted the 603s/604s and PowerPC-specific versions of the Mac OS (8.5 and 9) were released. But by that time the old Mac OS was already in the process of being substituted by the Mac OS X, with its completely different archicteture and paradigms. -- MaGioZal. <http://magiozal.blogspot.com/> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
