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'''''PowerPC Programmer's Toolkit''''' by '''Tom Thompson'''. '''Hayden Books''', a division of Macmillan Computer Publishing, Indianapolis, '''ยฉ 1996''', '''ISBN 1-56830-241-x'''. Second edition. '''507 pages''' in this scan.
Tom Thompson was Senior Technical Editor at Large for ''BYTE'' magazine and had covered the Macintosh for a decade when he wrote this; the book was technically reviewed by '''Jim Trudeau and Mark Anderson of Metrowerks and Alan Lillich of Apple Computer'''. That review line is why it is one of the more reliable PowerPC books of the period.
'''Not a repair source.''' This is a software book: no schematic, no parts list, no component value, no voltage and no fault-finding procedure for any machine. Nothing on this wiki should cite it for a hardware figure.
== Related pages ==
* [[:Category:Apple Programming Documentation]] โ€” the rest of the collection
* [[:Category:Apple Documentation]] ยท [[:Category:Apple Vintage Computers]]
* [[Maintenance Guides]] โ€” for the hardware side
* [[Optimizing PowerPC Code 1995]] ยท [[Power PC Concepts Architecture Design 1994]] ยท [[Power PC Programming for Intel Programmers 1995]] ยท [[Programming The PowerPC 1994]]
<pdf>File:PowerPC_Programmers_Toolkit_1996.pdf</pdf>
<pdf>File:PowerPC_Programmers_Toolkit_1996.pdf</pdf>


Download PowerPC Programmers Toolkit 1996 here: [[File:PowerPC_Programmers_Toolkit_1996.pdf]]
Download here: [[:File:PowerPC_Programmers_Toolkit_1996.pdf|PowerPC_Programmers_Toolkit_1996.pdf]]
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[[Category:Apple Programming Documentation]]
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Latest revision as of 02:28, 25 September 2026

PowerPC Programmer's Toolkit by Tom Thompson. Hayden Books, a division of Macmillan Computer Publishing, Indianapolis, ยฉ 1996, ISBN 1-56830-241-x. Second edition. 507 pages in this scan.

Tom Thompson was Senior Technical Editor at Large for BYTE magazine and had covered the Macintosh for a decade when he wrote this; the book was technically reviewed by Jim Trudeau and Mark Anderson of Metrowerks and Alan Lillich of Apple Computer. That review line is why it is one of the more reliable PowerPC books of the period.

Not a repair source. This is a software book: no schematic, no parts list, no component value, no voltage and no fault-finding procedure for any machine. Nothing on this wiki should cite it for a hardware figure.

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Download here: PowerPC_Programmers_Toolkit_1996.pdf