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In article <4i96nq$o48@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Richard Pitre,
pitre@n5160d.nrl.navy.mil writes:
>It depends what you are comparing. 
>If you are comparing verifiably functional chips in production then I would
>say that the correct thing to do is replace the word trounce with "pounds the 
>shit out of". If you compare them at the same clock speed then its just a silly  
>irresponsible joke to attempt a comparison.


Depends on a lot of things. From personal experience my old 8100/80
running 7.5.3 is as fast or faster than my old XPS90 pentium box (faster
since the arrival of Win95 and Office95). The 9500/120's at work simply
smoke our P5/133's at anything other than running Microsoft code. The 604
based boxes are easily as fast as the P6/150's. Hopefully I can get some
P5/200's later this year to see how they do.

A lot of factors decide the speed of a system (the speed the average user
sees when running day to day tasks). For PMac's running System 7.5.3 with
a fast harddrive, basically any drive other than an Apple drive, makes a
huge difference. For Win95 users, 16-32MB of RAM and a good video card
can make a P90 feel faster than a P5/150.

With Apple's products, I have been very impressed with the fact that the
systems get faster with every OS revision, that the hardware truly 100%
PnP, that the MacOS can do what it does despite the age of the foundation
it rests on. Basically what I want out of PC hardware is what the Mac has
had since the Mac II. My PC is a perfect example. It is a
less-than-current P90 with PCI and a PnP BIOS. yet, I can add no more
cards! I am flat out of IRQ's, and no amount of shuffling can make any
more. I don't even know if Mac's even HAVE IRQ's<g>. In addition, the PC
has required several system BIOS, video card BIOS and SCSI card BIOS
updates just the keep everything working together.

Give me the functional equivilent of Mac hardware with the ability to run
NT, UNIX, and Win95 or the MacOS and I'll be totally happy. Right now the
PC can run the OS's I want but the hardware is archaic. The Mac has the
hardware I want but currently lacks access to the other OS's.  PPCP could
change all of that though. 

WT