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

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From: Joe Ragosta
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 18:56

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In article <4j93ij$1ir@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>, veakblad@Glue.umd.edu
(David T. Wang) wrote:

> Joe Ragosta (jragosta@dca.net) wrote:
> : Wrong-o. Look at the November, 1995 Byte Magazine. They compared P6 and
> : 604 boxes running commercial apps under WinNT. The 604 won easily.
> 
> I did. They did not compare P6 and 604 boxes. You keep on telling me to
> look at Byte, which I did, and there was nothing there. 604 is a nice chip,
> "faster" than a P6? no. 

You didn't look very hard, then. Here, I'll make it easy for you:

http://www.byte.com/art/9511/sec9/art1.htm

The headline reads:

"Faster than P6 and Mips, slower than Alpha, the PowerPC 604 makes a
mean NT workstation"

Is the problem that you can't read or that you think everyone else is too
stupid to check a reference?

-- 
Regards,       Joe Ragosta

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From: jragosta@dca.net (Joe Ragosta)
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 13:56:31 -0500
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