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From: donrawlins@aol.com (DonRawlins)

>Worse yet, the PPC consortium and its long winded advocates touted the
>"fact" that "MacinToy" PPC machines would run x86 software in emulation
>faster than Intel machines could run it natively.  Today, all we can do is
>laugh at those fools who in their ignorant arrogance made such silly
>claims.  Perhaps had there been some honesty early on the world would be
>more accepting of the PowerPC computers.

>Don

The fool is not the PPC consortium making the statements.  The fool
is the person who believes it without seeing it.  The PPC/Apple marketeers
are just a bunch of glorified car salesmen making a living.  Don't
buy it till you drive it.  In defense of the marketeers, I think you
took their claims out of context a little bit, they probably
specifically stated performance greater than a certain CPU class
machine (say, 486 SX 25MHz or something like that).

Also, don't think
Intel doesn't pull stupid stunts like this.  I once saw a live Intel promo
showing how great and fast the new 60MHz Pentium machines were (maybe a year
and a half ago).  Just blows that 486 SX 25MHz away!  No kidding?! 
Why not compare it against the 486 DX 66?  Add man's jazz.  They all
do it.  Just like comparing a PowerMAC 604 133 against an older,
non-Triton P5-90.  The desired perception is conveyed : the PowerMAC
is much faster than the Pentium.  The Pentium is much faster than the
486.  The desired topic sentence with which to hypnotize the masses.

I filtered out the BS and didn't buy a Pentium until it really WAS
much faster than the 486.  This happened with the latest P5-120 machines
with advanced cache and memory architectures.

-Troy
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