Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Wwtaylor
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 17:49

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>It IS built to handle quad multiprocessor implementations with ease.  It
DOES
>have ECC, and multi level piping, etc...   I don't THINK the PPC has all
those
>speed is NOT the only thing.  Scalability and reliablity are ALSO
important.
>
>Steve

Ummm. Plenty of PPC workstations have ECC capability. They can handle Quad
CPU setups with ease too. Just check out the RS/6000 J30. 

Intel's business case is to ALWAYS sell more chips. Thus, it is in Intel's
interest for users to only get top performance in multi-cpu machines. I
noticed that Intel has moved from selling cpu's, to cpu's and chipsets, to
selling the entire motherboard. In essense, the PC market is a single
source market now. Every machine is the same internally.

As usual, the PPC and the Intel chips have pro's and con's. A person needs
to decide which design best meets their needs and go with it. It is dumb
to assume that only a single machine can be all things to all people.

WT

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