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In article <1992Dec17.224200.22219@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> merrifie@cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael C Merrifield) writes:

>
>        "Recent Studies Reveal 25MHz Is Now Faster Than 50MHz"
>
>"Ingram Benchmark Results, March 1992 - 25 and 33 MHz 040 Macintosh Quadra
>Outruns the 486 at 33 and 50 MHz."
>
>"This revelation is brought to you by the Apple Macintosh and the Motorola
>68040."  The add goes on to say that Ingram Labs (an independent PC testing
>firm) compared the newest 040 Macs (Quadra 950 and 700) to several of the
>quickest 486 Windows PCs running the most popular applications for both
>Macintosh and Windows 3.0 (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Wingz, PageMaker,
                       ^^^ Oh goody. Why not use go whole hog here and
                           use Windows 2.11? 3.1 is quite a bit faster 
                           than 3.0.

>Persuasion and Illustrator) and measured the performance of "real world
>functions" (such as opening a file, scrolling, running a macro, performing
>calculations, etc.).


What else was in those machines? They probably put Trident cards in the 
clones and used (slow) IBM VGA in the PS/2s.



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