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In <DDwHG2.G9H@dorsai.org> hunter@news.dorsai.org (Woodrow Shin)
writes: 
>
>Alan Lovejoy (lovejoya@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
>: In <41lq80$abo@nnrp1.primenet.com> english@primenet.com (Lawson
>: English) writes: 
>: >
>: >Woodrow Shin (hunter@news.dorsai.org) wrote:
>: >
>: >: 	The Power Mac will never trounce the Pentium as long as Pentium 
>: >: users enjoy a larger selection of software titles.  PC users will
>: always 
>: >: get first or equal dibs, on any software that comes out for the
>: desktop.  
>: >: And as long as PC users enjoy that first taste, they will always
be 
>: >: superior to Mac users.  For instance does the Power Mac trounce
the 
>: >: Pentium when running USNF?  Nope, because Power mac users don't
have
>
>: >: USNF.
>
>: By this reasoning, CPM users have it all over WinDos users :-)
>
>	I never heard of the acronym - CPM.  I assume it must not be 
>mainstream.
>
>: >
>: >So how does Poser do on a Pentium?
>: >
>: >How's QuickDraw GX doing?
>: >
>: >How many multiple-language wordprocessors do you have?
>: >
>: >Etc?
>: >
>: >: Does that explain my point?
>: >Hmmm? You were saying?
>
>	Are you saying that the Power Mac, has a greater of selection of 
>software for mainstream users then the Pentium?
>
>: >Lawson English                            __  __     ____  ___     
 
>: >english@primenet.com                     /__)/__) / / / / /_  /\  /
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>
>: Empires rise, empires fall.  It's a natural process.  The question
>: isn't whether WinDos will be supplanted by a worthy successor.  It's
>: when, and by what?
>
>	Good question.  Who knows.
>
>-Woodrow
>
According to 9/95 Byte, the Pentium is actually faster than a similarly
clocked P6 in certain cases involving 16-bit code. Of course, what is
really needed is native mode software. If the Pentium or P6 is going to
only be a super-speed 8088 (with all the segmentation and Rube Goldburg
access to extended memory) and the Power PC is going to only run as a
68000 or 8086 emulator then you really won't get all that much benefit
from them. This is why Windows graphics programs run better on a Power
PC than DOS games. If you call a Windows graphics call then you go into
Soft Windows and into native Power PC code. If someone has written a
DOS game, on the other hand, and used Michael Abrash's hints to
optimize his assembly language code and this wonderful x86 code hits
the x86 emulator...