power macintosh ppc

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The power macintosh 6100 was introduced alongside the power macintosh 7100 and power macintosh 8100 and occupied the entry-level role of the new power macintosh family. 

Apple also released a PC-compatible model of the 6100/66 called the power macintosh 6100 DOS compatible. This version came with a PDS card with an Intel 80486 DX2/66 processor (without L2 cache) and a single SIMM RAM slot that uses the same type of RAM as in the 6100 itself. The card supports to 32 MB of RAM, a creative technology vibra 16 sound chipset, and also includes standard PC VGA and joystick ports. With this card, the 6100 is capable of running both the Mac OS interface and DOS/Windows 3.1 side-by-side, even on different monitors. The card could also use the main system RAM if there was no SIMM installed on the card. 

The powermac 8100 was the fastest, most expandable first-generation powermac.  The 9600 was packaged in an eye-pleasing new tower design, built to make its insides more easily accessible. It ran on 233, 200 or dual 200 MHz 604e's. Although it looked different on the outside, the logic board was basically the same design as that of the 9500.  The 350-MHz 9600 returned several months later to fill out the High-End market. While the G3 was in many cases faster, its logic board had only three PCI slots and three RAM slots. With superior expandability, the 9600 was still the high-end choice for many.