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

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From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 12:41

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In article <405gel$dss@meaddata.meaddata.com> christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) writes:
>A few facts: the PowerPC family is thriving.  Over 2 million of the
>original family member, the PowerPC 601, have been shipped to end
>customers.  The PowerPC is the most popular RISC processor in desktop
>systems; more PowerPC systems have shipped than systems powered by
>SPARC, ALPHA, MIPS, or PA-RISC.  The fastest microprocessor in
>mass-market personal computers is the PowerPC 604 - 132 MHz, with even
>faster versions sure to follow.

Please provide references. According to the data I have in front of me your
figures look wrong. Also please tell me the speed justification and what
formal benchmarks were used. Was the bus bandwidth analysed and what
operation set was the benchmark modelling

Alan
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