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The 88110 CPU and the RISC workstations that never were

At the beginning of the Nineties both Apple and NeXT were planning to unveil new RISC machines, powered by the Motorola 88110 CPU. At that point the Motorola…

The PPC 603e: from Macs to outer space

The second generation of PowerPC processors made its debut in april 1995 with the launch of the all-in-one Power Macintosh 5200 LC (also known under the Performa moniker)….

Apple’s Babelfish

Babelfish was a technology part of the ill-fated Apple-IBM Taligent project in the early Nineties. Totally unrelated to Yahoo!’s translation service but sharing the same Douglas Adams reference,…