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In article <jragosta-1601961045420001@ppp-1001.dca.net>, jragosta@dca.net\ 
says...
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>In article <4de92u$ded@baygull.rtd.com>, Lawson English <kensal@rtd.com> 
wrote:
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>> However, the debate that has been raging is:
>> 
>> WHY are the Pentium Pro SPECint/fpXX scores so high in comparison to the 
>> PowerPC and other CPU's, when the BYTEMark scores are so low comparing 
>> the same systems?
>> 
>> 
>> Simply referring us to the half of the figures that happen to favor 
>> Intel doesn't resolve the issue. We KNOW that Intel beats the pants off 
>> of PowerPC's and many other CPU's on SPEC. 
>> 
>> But why is there such a HUGE difference between the SPEC and the BYTE?
>
>Or on applications performance. WinNT on a 604 is much faster than WinNT
>on a P6 (according to Byte Magazine).
>
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>Regards,       Joe Ragosta
>
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PowerPCs have superior graphics cards and possibly CD drives that use MUCH less 
processor time that INTEL type systems do.
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