Technical Details
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Hardware
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- 66MHz PowerPC 603 RISC Microprocessor
- Superscaler, 3 instructions per clock cycle
- 8 kByte data and 8 kByte instruction caches
- IEEE standard Single & Double Precision Floating Point Unit
- 6 MB combined System & Video Memory, advanced architecture
- 4X CDROM drive
- 64 kbyte SRAM Store/Restore Backup
- Aftermarket easy memory expansion cards 2, 4 and 8 MB increments
Video
- 8 bit and 16 bit video support
- Dual Frame Buffers for superior frame to frame animation
- Support for NTSC & PAL composite, S-Video and VGA (640x480) monitors
- Up to 16.7M colors
Audio
- Stereo 16 bit 44 kHz sampled output
- Stereo 16 bit 44 kHz sampled input
Telephony
Controllers
- Supports up to 4 simultaneous players over Apple Desktop Bus (ADB)
- Will support standard ADB keyboards and mice with connector adapters
Data I/O
- 1 standard Serial Communications port
Aftermarket Expansion
- "PCI like" expansion for adding floppy drive, hard disk drive, graphics accelerators, codecs, etc. (Not available at introduction!)
Software
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- Run time environment derived from MacOS
- Integrates QuickTime 2.0 and PPC native version of QuickDraw
- Reduced system memory footprint - (computer specific features removed)
- Disk resident system stamped on CD with title
- System boots off CD
- Pippin system software upgrades released through CD-ROM stamping operations
- Developers free to choose from menu of system software upgrades
ROMs
- 68k emulator
- Macintosh Tool Box intact
- Localized bit mapped fonts
- Reduced Macintosh System ROM footprint
CD Formats Supported
- Standard audio CD
- Other formats in market studies
For additional information on the Pippin, see "Pippin: Questions and Answers (Part 1 of 2)" and "Pippin: Questions and Answers (Part 2 of 2)."