apple computer's personal computer based on the powerpc, introduced on 1994-03-14. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Macintosh systems without modification via a motorola 68lc040 emulator. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast 68040-based Macintosh, e.g. a fast macintosh quadra. The Power Macintosh runs macintosh operating system from system 7.5 to mac os 8.5.

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