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Iskandar Taib (ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
: 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.

	Please state what is the hardware config. of 486.
Once a 386 with fast VGA card and SCSI-2 harddisk can run most ms-windows
application faster than a 486 with dump vga card and slow IDE HD.



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