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+Usually refering to the [PowerPC] G3. There is also a most excellent [digital camera], the [CanonPowerShotG3].
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Now the PowerPC's were ready to evolve again -- this was the 3rd generation of PowerPC's. After the highly successful second generation of PowerPC's, IBM and Motorola decided to split out development and create more processors. This family of processors became known as the G3. There are both low-cost/low-power versions and higher performance versions. The [G3] was going to have both 603 and 604 derrivatives.
The first was the 603 derrivative. These processors got some changes to the core (the way it excecutes instructions) to optimize the processor for the Macintosh Operating System [1]. This of course resulted in a large performance boost, above and beyond the performance boosts offered by the new backside cache.
