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Article #1259Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Lawson English
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 01:44
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 01:44
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Alan Cox (iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <405gel$dss@meaddata.meaddata.com> christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) writes:
: >A few facts: the PowerPC family is thriving. Over 2 million of the
: >original family member, the PowerPC 601, have been shipped to end
: >customers. The PowerPC is the most popular RISC processor in desktop
: >systems; more PowerPC systems have shipped than systems powered by
: >SPARC, ALPHA, MIPS, or PA-RISC. The fastest microprocessor in
: >mass-market personal computers is the PowerPC 604 - 132 MHz, with even
: >faster versions sure to follow.
: Please provide references. According to the data I have in front of me your
: figures look wrong. Also please tell me the speed justification and what
: formal benchmarks were used. Was the bus bandwidth analysed and what
: operation set was the benchmark modelling
Apple just announced that they have shipped 2 million PowerMacs and
PowerMac upgrades. That means AT LEAST 2 million 601's have been sold to
the end-user.
The 132mhz 604 PowerMac scores higher benchmarks (e.g. BYTE benchmarks
see thread on comp.benchmarks), especially when using the Motorola mcc
compiler.
SPECint/fp92 for the 132mhz 604 machines from IBM scores higher than a
133mhz pentium machine from Intel, although not by much.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.primenet.com!english From: english@primenet.com (Lawson English) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Date: 19 Aug 1995 01:44:48 GMT Organization: Primenet (602)395-1010 Message-ID: <413fmg$bng@nnrp3.primenet.com> References: <yu132938-3107951833220001@moe11.slip.yorku.ca> <3vjsjj$6ah@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <405gel$dss@meaddata.meaddata.com> <DDGGLs.LDr@info.swan.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: usr4.primenet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]