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

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From: Xcott Craver
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 19:20
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Dan Pop (Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch) spewed forth the following profound insight:
==> In <41dejm$d1p@sundog.tiac.net> Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> writes:

==> >Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
==> >>In <Pine.SUN.3.91.950821100405.5161B-100000-100000@spad.eng.auburn.edu> >

==> >>The bitness of an architecture is not defined by the size of the external
==> >>data bus, period.                                                ^^^^^^^^
==> >>                                                                 ^^^^^^^^
==>                                                                    ^^^^^^^^
==>                                                                    ^^^^^^^^
==>                                                                    ^^^^^^^^

==> >Now I'm wondering if he used the word "external" anywhere.  I
==> >won't go looking.

==> No need.  The internal data paths in the 8088 are 16-bit, so he was
==> obviously talking about the external data bus.

    I was going to follow up to this with a big rant about how you two 
could up the average IQ of comp.sys.powerpc by at least 37 points simply 
by posting to more relevant groups (like bozo.argue.*.advocacy), but I 
have to go talk to my advisor, and get a haircut.  I will instead just 
let you look at the quoted text above and reflect.  

    Now, I know this could just be a horrific troll, but I have been 
reading your posts for several months now, and can safely discount that 
as a possibility.  HTH!

                                                            -Caj
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From: z911588@cs.niu.edu (Xcott Craver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
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.test,misc.test
Date: 23 Aug 1995 14:20:42 -0500
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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