Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 16:58

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In <3vm76m$isk@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca> jtmspron@enci.ucalgary.ca (Tristan Spronken) writes:

>Dan Pop (Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch) wrote:
>: >>IBM 40P           MPC601     66      256+32       75.1    77.0  Mar95 www.ibm
>
>: SNI/Pyr PC/E5S    Pentium    30/90   256+8/8      86.3    72.7  Jul94 c.bmarks
>
>: Let me remind you that you needed a 604 Mac to be able to show a marginal
>: speed advantage over the Pentium.
>
>So let me get this straight.  You are saying that the pentium is superior
>to the 601 because it is faster at a higher clock rate?  I thought that

Show me where I did claim that the Pentium is superior to the 601.
I did claim that they're roughly equivalent.  Nobody could produce
data to prove me wrong.

>the superior chip would be faster at a slower speed.  Lets see some
>Pentiums at 66MHz equal the 601 at 66 MHz. 

Posted them two days ago.

Dan
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