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

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From: Jim Williams
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 14:17

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"Jeffery D. Walker" <walkej2@eng.auburn.edu> wrote:
>
>The MAJOR slowdown for a computer is NOT the cpu speed or the clock 
>speed, but the BUS SPEED!!!  If someone dissagres with me, try taking a 
>few computer engineering/electrical engineering courses and come back and 
>we will talk.
>

Technically, it's the buss throughput...  Datapath width and buss clock
speed.  Other than that, you are correct.  (Please give me as 128 bit buss.:)

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