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In article <347B0F29.2A8803D6@bigfoot.com>,
Lawrence <flowerpots@bigfoot.com> wrote:

>Subject: Re: Faster than Windoze
>From: Lawrence <flowerpots@bigfoot.com>
>Reply-To: flowerpots@bigfoot.com
>Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 17:47:24 +0000
>Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac
>
>Tom Berriman wrote:
>> 
>> In article <1d01lkr.1x97m9fj98e8N@pwomar.demon.co.uk>,
>> Newsmaster@pwomar.demon.co.uk (Paul Womar) wrote:
>> 
>> >Lawrence <flowerpots@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Does anyone know if a PowerMac 9600/350 with VirtualPC will run Windoze
>> >> applications faster than a 266 Pentium 2?
>> 
>> Rumour has it that a 9600/350 with RealPC runs at the same speed as a
>> Pentium <<One>> with MMX.
>
>I'm glad this hasn't died!   All the reviews I read about VPC and the like
>suggest that on most applications, there is little noticeable speed difference
>between Mac/VPC and Pentium, and if any it's about 10-20pc slower!
>
>Therefore 9600/350MHz being about 30pc faster than 266MHz should be faster.
>
>I know the processors work in different ways and certain calculations are
>processed at different speeds etc... but it can't be as far off as some have
>suggested??
>
>Can anyone tell me what RISC and CISC stands for.
>-- 
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RISC = reduced instruction set
CISC = complex instruction set

All this talk of speed is fairly meaningless.  It's like talking about cars
- what to one person is fuel efficient yet fun is, to another, slow and
cheap.  I use many types of computer from various flavours of Unix machine,
Windows 95 and MacOS 7.6.1 and 8.0 on a 68040 and 603e and I run programs
that take weeks to run on an IBM RS6000 and other programs only seconds to
run on a LC475.  Speed has a lot to do with the bus speed, memory structure
and amount, OS overhead, graphics cards (if you're using them), network
speed, etc etc.  By the time I've finished with all this, the only thing
that impresses me is the time it takes me t get the task done.  When I
spent my own money on a machine, it was a Mac only because I could turn it
on and go - OS up and configured in around 1 hour (i.e. I wiped the hard
disk and re-installed it how I wanted it, not how Apple thought I wanted
it), internet up 20 minutes after that - all software installed after only
a couple of hours, etc etc.  But that's just me.  Your milage may vary.  If
you want to run Win32 software full time, get a PC.  VPC is ggod for
occasional use of PC software, but it's not a good PC.  Even if the Pentium
is emulated at equivalent speed (which I doubt), what about the graphics
update, data transfer (most Macs have system buses that are 50MHz bus or
below), etc?  

Yours,

Andrew