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Article #2724Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Dave Glue
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 19:39
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 19:39
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On 11 Jan 1996 09:04:09 -0800, curt@beowulf.jpl.nasa.gov (Curt Eggemeyer) wrote: > > >>And by the way the 604 is a somewhere between a Pentium and a Pentium >>Pro in speed (excluding the newest Pentiums which at 166MHz do gain some >>advantage). This is assuming that the Pentium Pro is running 32 bit >>apps (ie Spec95 benchmarks etc). > >The Pentium Pro's maybe faster in some respect, but they don't compete >with the powerPC chips when it comes to production costs. In the end >Intel will have to reduce their massive transistor count if they hope >to remain competitive with the other cpu producers. Really. How do you know this? Do you work on both lines? Intel's profit margins are VERY high. For such high production costs, that would seem strange, wouldn't it?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.interlog.com!news From: daveacg@interlog.com (Dave Glue) 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: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 19:39:38 GMT Organization: InterLog Internet Services Message-ID: <4d4omk$otj@steel.interlog.com> References: <30F1D5A5.637A@medcor.mcgill.ca> <nelsoni.821198907@rintintin.Colorado.EDU> <30F35257.7DCC@medcor.mcgill.ca> <4d3fu9$2t2@eraserhead.jpl.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: daveacg.interlog.com X-Newsreader: Moe's Newsreader