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Article #2729Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: William Taylor
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 16:14
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 16:14
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In article <davis-0901961913020001@pppsb24.itg.ti.com> Tom L. Davis, davis@adrs1.dseg.ti.com writes: > 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). > Can you say "realtime 3D"? It is coming quickly, and Intel PC's are going to be way behind the curve. A 604 is 1/6 the price of a P6/200 yet offers comparable FPU speed. Pentium's are even farther behind. WT
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!ix-mem-tn1-03.ix.netcom.com!wwtaylor From: William Taylor <wwtaylor@ix.netcom.com> 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: 12 Jan 1996 16:14:20 GMT Organization: CMC, Inc Distribution: world Message-ID: <4d61cs$k9s@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> References: <nelsoni.821198530@rintintin.Colorado.EDU> <4d4omk$otj@steel.interlog.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.960111201039.20821C-100000@howard> NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-mem-tn1-03.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Jan 12 8:14:20 AM PST 1996 X-Newsreader: Nuntius 2.0.4_68K X-XXMessage-ID: <AD1BE4D3E0018D23@ix-mem-tn1-03.ix.netcom.com> X-XXDate: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 15:13:39 GMT