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

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From: Stephen Knilans
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 15:40

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In article <402un3$4mq@steel.interlog.com> daveacg@interlog.com (Dave Glue) writes:
>gato@freud.inst.com (gato) wrote:
>
>
>>Those are the inital stats for the P6 133.  The 200 will be ou shortly.  
>>Besides, whether or not the performance dazzles you, the archetecture of 
>>the chipset is superior now, and the next generation will really bring 
>>the most out of the proc.
>
>How is the architecture superior?  The P6 is impressive engineering,
>but in terms of "room to go", it has to jump through far more hoops
>than the comparable Power PC to achieve the same speeds.  Simply the
>legacy of backward compatibility.
>
It IS built to handle quad multiprocessor implementations with ease.  It DOES
have ECC, and multi level piping, etc...   I don't THINK the PPC has all those
speed is NOT the only thing.  Scalability and reliablity are ALSO important.

Steve

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