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Basics | Power Macintosh System Overview - 3 | |
| Compatibility is not limited just to applications. INITs, |
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| CDEVs, drivers, and other Macintosh utility software also | |
| work on PowerPC | |
| AppleTalk devices (such as printers), SCSI devices (such as | |
| hard drives and scanners), ADB devices (such as mice, | |
| trackballs, and keyboards), and other Macintosh cards and | |
| peripherals. | |
| The primary operating system for PowerPC processor- | |
| based Macintosh computers is System 7. The operating | |
| system has been optimized for the highest performance on | |
| the PowerPC processor. This optimization of System 7 | |
| benefits applications written for 680x0 systems as well as | |
| those developed specifically for PowerPC | |
| systems. | |
| And while | |
| native applications offer two to four times the performance |