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In article <4cea6i$4dt@khyber.ncc.up.pt>,
   pbv@oat.ncc.up.pt (Pedro Baltazar Valconcelos) wrote:
>sidea guys (sidea8120@sidea.com) wrote:
>: i personally noticed a big difference in speed going from a win 95 P120 
>: 16-4x to a PPC 100 (pmac7500) 16-4x, like maybe 15 percent or more. I was 
>: actually surprised, but happy to see Apple get it right.
>
>  This is unfair for the P120: what MB did it have? what video
>board? what discs & controllers?
> The PowerMac has a VRAM-based video board and SCSI discs, cd-rom
>so you should compare with a similarly equiped PC. The nice thing
>is you can buy _extremely_ fast VRAM-video cards (with an S3 968,
>or a Matrox, for example) and PCI SCSI adapters (Adaptec or Buslogic,
>to name two) and _sill_ spend less in the whole deal than the
>price of the PowerMac...
>  As to the brute-force processor speed, well just check 
>universal benchmarks, such as dhrystone, wheetstone, whatever.
>I think (can't be sure) the P120 is significally faster in all
>except maybe floating-point (I can't remember which is faster there).

Actually you're wrong. A 601 is always faster than a Pentium of the same 
clock rate.  A 604 is even faster.