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Article #327Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Eric Bennett
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 14:44
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 14:44
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In article <davis-0108951934350001@pppsb1.itg.ti.com> davis@adrs1.dseg.ti.com (Tom L. Davis) writes: >In article <3vlv3n$8o0@nnrp3.primenet.com>, english@primenet.com (Lawson >English) wrote: >:Since SoftWIndows was *optimized* so that the emulator would be bypassed >:for critical calls like GDI stuff, and since the beta system of 2.0 probably >:isn't optimized for all WIndows 95 calls, this is quite an interesting >:datum, IMHO. >If Apple's new emulator (on the 9500) can outperform all 040 Macs, why >can't Softwindows do the same relative to a 66 MHz 486DX2 (which I assume >is equivalent to a 33 MHz 040)? No, clock doubled '040s are not as fast as clock doubled 486s. That's why Apple never labeled them as being clock-doubled at all (until recently, when they decided to go in for some hype). A 68040 @ 40 mhz is just a tad slower than a 486/66. Also keep in mind that we're talking about a BETA of SoftWindows 2.0, which could have some debugging code holding it back. We'll have to wait until it's release to see how fast it really is. -Ericb@psu.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.cac.psu.edu!lure!ericb From: ericb@psu.edu (Eric Bennett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 14:44:56 GMT Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing Message-ID: <ericb.512.301F8F68@psu.edu> References: <3vli5j$1ha0@navajo.gate.net> <3vlv3n$8o0@nnrp3.primenet.com> <davis-0108951934350001@pppsb1.itg.ti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lure.bmb.psu.edu X-Authinfo-User: emb121@psu.edu X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B]