• PowerPC 603, PowerPC 604 and the 64-bit PowerPC 620. The PowerPC 601 was the first generation of microprocessors to support the basic 32-bit PowerPC instruction...
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    Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. PowerPC, as an evolving instruction set, has been named Power ISA since 2006, while the old name lives on...
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  • floating-point unit. The PowerPC 601 was the first Mac processor to support the 32-bit PowerPC instruction set architecture. The PowerPC 604e was the first...
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    9600, had their PowerPC 601 and 604 processors on daughtercards which could be swapped out for PowerPC G3 and G4 upgrades. Mid-range Power Macintosh systems...
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    designed for many Motorola 68040-powered Macintosh LC, Quadra and Performa models. The card contains a PowerPC 601 CPU and plugs into the 68040 CPU socket...
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    through a succession of enclosure designs, a rename to "Power Mac", five major generations of PowerPC chips, and a great deal of press coverage, design accolades...
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  • "PowerPC601 RISC Microprocessor Technical Summary" (PDF). Retrieved 23 October 2022. Moore, Charles R.; Becker, Michael C. et al. "The PowerPC 601 microprocessor"...
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    300 MHz. It features integrated 10/100 Ethernet. This is the PC counterpart of the RS/6000 PowerPC 604 processor at 100, 120 or 133 MHz ISA/PCI PReP architecture...
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  • Mac computers through 1995, utilizing the Motorola 68030, 68040 and PowerPC 601 processors. These upgrades were installed directly into the Processor...
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    the Power Macintosh 7600, identical to the 7500 except for the CPU which was a PowerPC 604 or 604e processor instead of the 7500's 601; and the Power Macintosh...
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