🚀 go-pugleaf

Damien Corbell wrote:
> 
> Ok.  All I have to say is this:
>         I have used both Power Macs and Win NT PCs.  The PCs are
> undeniably faster and more reliable.  At school I use a Power Mac 9500
> 180mhz 604e with 64MB RAM.  At home I use a Pentium Pro 200mhz with
> 64MB RAM.  There is no comparison.  My PC is faster.  I had a Mac
> until the end of the summer and had a lot of problems with it.  My
> Wintel box is more difficult to upkeep, but I have more control over
> it.  I think that one of the main problems with running a PowerMac is
> the simple fact that the OS kernel is 16 bit, and doesn't support true
> multitasking, or multiprocessing.  Be-os ought to do a serious job for
> PowerMacs.  Till then, NT 4.0 is the key to performance.

I'll agree with you that Windows NT Workstation is going to give you a
lot of speed improvements over the Mac OS and Windows 3.x - Windows 95. 
Just make sure you have enough RAM.  One point that everyone involved
with this thread will have to realize is that the CPU and operating
system are only part of what will make a computer fast or slow.  Types
of hard drives, interfaces, amount and type of RAM, acceleration cards
or lack of, and many other things can cloud the comparison.  It is
possible to rig up an old 486 Wintel box to where it will run faster
than a lower end Pentium machine.

As for the CPU comparisons, the benchmarks in my previous post are real
numbers.  The PPC 604e is faster, but as I stated a few days ago it is
not fast enough for me to want to spend thousands more on a PPC based
system.  If I need to spend more money for a system that will get my
jobs done undeniably faster for much more profit, then I'll consider a
Silicon Graphics system.