In a system hardware course a while ago, they had us write machine code for the MIPS RISC processor, the story being that RISC was so much more efficient than CISC like the x86's. PowerPC is RISC. (I haven't seen this mentioned before in this thread,so thought I'd throw it in.) On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Michael Bigley wrote: . . . > AMD were supposed to announce a agreement to unlease OSX from the > PowerPC chipset. Perhaps the realization that they enforcing a . . . > from PowerPC because the development of that chipset is just too slow > for Apple to remain competitive with Wintel. . . .