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Article #2737Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Aron S. Spencer
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 00:57
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 00:57
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\I think copland (the OS, not the kernel) will have much more native code \than 7.5, especially in critical areas, but not 100% PPC. PPC vs 68K code \is not what I was referring to when I said copland was a partial rewrite. \Old source code (QuickDraw for example), recompiled for PPC, introduces \some limitation in how copland applications can use preemptive \multitasking. Officially, the only non-native code left in Copland will be that which deals with 68k emulation issues, where context switching would degrade performance more than emulation. Thus native apps will never deal with non-native code. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ | Aron S. Spencer | http://www.r8ix.com | | Radix Consulting, Ltd. | (919) 596-0152 phone | | 1716 Virgil Rd. | (919) 596-0081 fax | | Durham, NC 27703-9614 | mailto:aron@r8ix.com | -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!aron.r8ix.com!user From: aron@r8ix.com (Aron S. Spencer) 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 19:57:18 -0500 Organization: Radix Consulting Message-ID: <aron-1201961957180001@aron.r8ix.com> References: <m.duran-1611950252110001@port19.codetel.net.do><49gkhp$3ag@newsbf02.news.aol. <1996Jan8.132733.44712@ac.dal.ca> <adtDKvpGI.EBB@netcom.com> <30F4A742.2F07@38north.com> <adtDL169C.2Dw@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 152.52.125.195 X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.1.7