Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks

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From: Jerome 'TofuSoft' Chan
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 06:27

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In article <C0Co0s.1C6@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) wrote:
> 
> In article <1992Dec23.144535.11341@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
> 
> >  The truth is that Mac applications are 32 bit, and DOS applications
> >are 16 bit. A comparison of UNIX 32 bit applications would be more
> >correct, if they were just comparing the processors.
> 
> Well, if this is so, how do the apps run on Mac Pluses? And why is 
> 32 bit adressing an option under System 7? 

They run under 24 bits or you can plug in mode32 and run them under 32
bits.
They have 32 bit as an option to maintain backward compatibility with
Applications which are not 32 bit clean. I seldom come across a 32 bit
unclean application though. Even the old 1985(?) Missile Command Game I
found run under 32 bits.

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The Evil Tofu

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From: yjc@po.cwru.edu (Jerome 'TofuSoft' Chan)
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Subject: Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
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