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

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From: Stephen Knilans
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 05:32

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In article <4kbb7g$vtv@nitrogen.mankato.msus.edu> Mr. Finster writes:
>In article <4jqsr5$ous@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>, kraemer@rzri6f.gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) says:
>>
>>
>>In article <stephenkDp34yH.Dtw@netcom.com>, stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans
>>) writes:
>>> In article <mem-2903961057080001@durin.pha.jhu.edu> mem@jhu.edu (Mel Martinez)
>> writes:
>>> >In article <stephenkDp0JpA.F6u@netcom.com>, stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen
>>> >Knilans) wrote:
>>
>>(lengthy stuff deleted)
>>
>
>Take a look at this?
>
>You're comparing Processors and stating that one PROCESSOR has
>better Disk Read/Write Capability?  What?!?!

OF COURSE NOT!  It is a BENCHMARK!  I am ALSO testing TERMINAL I/O!

>And who manufactures PPC?  IBM!
>Am I going insane?
>Yup.
>
>What you know and what you THINK you know are two different things.
>
>Compare CISC loops and RISC loops.......
>Compare the length of long for Pent and PPC.
>Compare the length of the double for Pent and PPC.
>A double on a 486 is only 80 bits long!

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