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gato@freud.inst.com (gato) wrote:

>workking in music, academia, and a few other fields dominated by right
>brainers who seem to have trouble installing CD-ROMs and using a
>command-line interface rather than a native GUI interface), and, when you
>resort to running PC software in emultaion mode, MAYBE equal performance. 

Jesus.  This above paragraph speaks for itself.

>
>developer support.  Politics, not performance, determine the superiority
>of a system, unfortunately:  what good is a PPC system if there are so few
>apps for it?  

There are "so few" apps for a PPC?  Have you checked out the size of
the Power Macs native software base lately?  Hardly small- even games
are flowing to it like water.

I
>Finally, the P6, whether or not the initial 133MHz version's stats impress
>you, will be in an architecture designed around SMP.  Systems with as many
>as four procs are expected. 

Already available with the 604 actually.  Nothing new here.


>that kind of power, if the fools at Microsoft had bothered to add
>multithreading to the PEM.  

"Fools"?  You want Windows 95 with SMP, get NT 3.6.  No point in
providing SMP for a desktop OS like 95.

>there, and that's just ihe 133MHz chip.  The 200MHz chips, of course, will
>blow that out of the water. 

And the 604 will stand still?

My oh my, what an ill-informed invidual.