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Article #1313Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware
From: Dylan F A
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 03:12
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 03:12
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Dan Stephenson wrote: >I've always thought the Pentium and PC601 were roughly equivalent per >Mhz, but the PPC's advantage was a lower price. Yes in SPECint, no in SPECfp. The ppc has a decent advantage in floating point. However, most app tests done between MacOS 601s and P5s running Win3.1 show considerable advantages for the 601. All of which means little to people here, very few of which will touch Windows 3.1. Dylan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: dylanfa@aol.com (Dylan F A) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware Date: 19 Aug 1995 23:12:34 -0400 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <416972$a0o@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <4130pi$59d@news.net-connect.net> Reply-To: dylanfa@aol.com (Dylan F A) NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com