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Article #66Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Tom Roehl
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 16:57
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 16:57
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In article <3vhe3g$fi2@newsbf02.news.aol.com> donrawlins@aol.com (DonRawlins) writes: >Dan Pop writes... >... The PPC601 was a flop. And a big reason is poor performance. But don't forget, that the the 601 chip was never meant or designed to be the intel-killer chip. It's main purpose and design goal was to be a transitional chip which would allow Mac users to move quickly to a RISC architecture. Keeping that goal in mind, the 601 chip was a HUGE success. Tom
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.legent.com!thunder!tom From: tom@thunder.uucp (Tom Roehl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: 31 Jul 1995 16:57:54 GMT Organization: Legent Message-ID: <3vj22i$g9r@booch.legent.com> References: <danpop.807143070@rscernix> <3vhe3g$fi2@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 155.35.54.40