ONE OF THE advantages of the Macintosh, from its launch in 1984, was the Motorola 68000 processor, which was inherently more powerful than the IBM PC’s Intel 8088. But by the late 1980s the 68000 series was falling behind CEO John Sculley’s ambitions for the high-end market, and a Cray supercomputer was wheeled in to enable the in-house development of a brand new CPU.
The Power Macintosh was a significant development in Apple’s vision.
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