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Article #2664Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: David Lawson
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 23:10
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 23:10
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In article <30F193AD.4733@medcor.mcgill.ca>, Robert Salasidis <salasidis@medcor.mcgill.ca> wrote: > Nobody argues that the PPC is faster in floating point. However for most > users, 99% of the time is spent in integer functions. Integer benchmarks > show that there is very little diffeence between the 2 processors (and > at least the x86 camp has a Pentium Pro to upgrade to today). Hmm... I guess all those PowerMac 9500's in the lab only have virtual 604's... pretty neat trick. (Everyone forgets that they're comparing 200MHz PPro's to 132MHz 604's. There will be faster 604's...) David _______________ David Lawson University of Washington dal@u.washington.edu WWW: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~dal/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!carey.han.housing.washington.edu!user From: dal@u.washington.edu (David Lawson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 15:10:37 -0800 Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <dal-0801961510370001@carey.han.housing.washington.edu> References: <m.duran-1611950252110001@port19.codetel.net.do> <49gkhp$3ag@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <30c6ee29.1582369@news.metronet.com> <1995Dec18.145106.44180@ac.dal.ca> <jragosta-1812951544340001@ppp-1017.dca.net> <4bpgk6$jc1@vodka.intele.net> <4bvd1r$qn3@sloth.swcp.com> <karl-0801961004470001@fampm201.tu-graz.ac.at> <30F193AD.4733@medcor.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: carey.han.housing.washington.edu NNTP-Posting-User: David Lawson X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.0.6b4