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In article <1992Dec17.224200.22219@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> merrifie@cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael C Merrifield) writes:
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>        "Recent Studies Reveal 25MHz Is Now Faster Than 50MHz"
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>"Ingram Benchmark Results, March 1992 - 25 and 33 MHz 040 Macintosh Quadra
>Outruns the 486 at 33 and 50 MHz."
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>"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

First, about the "independent" firm: they we're hired by Apple right ?

Second, the 50MHz 486 was an ALR BusinessVEISA, probably WITHOUT the
 optional cache card, which means a 50MHz computer NO cache and 80ns
 memory. Anyone wan't to calculate WAITSTATES here ?

Third, how come that the 33MHz where only 4% faster than a 25MHz machine ?
 Now if this was true processor performance the difference should be > 30%.
 Let me guess - Motorola doesn't make math coprocessors - who would buy them ?

Henrik Vallgren
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