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Article #13421Re: Mac Vs. Windows? (sorry)
From: Tom Rombouts
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1991 15:48
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1991 15:48
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In article <0E010021.e0mxxc@gla-aux.uucp> glenn%gla-aux.uucp@skinner.cs.uoregon.edu writes: > >In article <1991May18.050842.5732@cs.uoregon.edu>, akm@obelix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes: >> So, my question is: if the Mac is faster than a "comparable" pc in >> execution, what is the reason? Is it ROM? (I don't think so for the >> reasons listed above.) What other things can make a difference? > >Two things -- processor effeciency and levels of routines. [ rest of post deleted ] >2) The Motorola (and for that matter, any linear-addressing processor) is >faster than segmented memory. Correct me if I am wrong, but in small (or tiny) memory model apps, the 80x86 is essentially a linear-addressing processor. I would tend to think it would be faster shuffling 16-bit addresses (since the segment registers do not change) than a Motorola with (is it?) 32-bit addresses. Of course, this is straying from discussion of Win3.... Tom Rombouts Torrance 'Tater tomr@ashtate.A-T.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!hacgate!ashtate!dbase!tomr From: tomr@dbase.A-T.COM (Tom Rombouts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Mac Vs. Windows? (sorry) Message-ID: <1991Jun4.154854.19649@dbase.A-T.COM> Date: 4 Jun 91 15:48:54 GMT References: <0E010021.e0mxxc@gla-aux.uucp> Reply-To: tomr@dbase.UUCP (Tom Rombouts) Organization: Ashton-Tate Lines: 23