In article <Pine.A32.3.96.980227125847.120887B-100000@macro.stanford.edu> you write:
> Everyone calls them Powermacs.. Plus, I like being able to cd to

Well, $MACHINE doesn't jave to be what everyone calls it. Nobody refers
to the machines NetBSD/i386 runs on as "i386es", right? They're "clones"
or "pcs" or whatever. :-)

I'd say "ppc" should be used consistently instead of "powerpc", too.
It's all just a matter of preference, though.