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Article #1116Re: Intel Price Drop?
From: James McIninch
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 00:00
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Someone calling themselves John L. Kramer (kramer@flair.gt.ed.net) wrote: ) Dean H. Saxe (dean@cerevisiae.biology.emory.edu) wrote: ) : In article <33775046.1C3C@prism.gatech.edu>, Bart Youngblood ) : <gt5457c@prism.gatech.edu> wrote: ) : > Heck, if I were to buy a new processor, I'djust get a Pentium II. You ) : > get more L1 and L2 cache, higher clock speed, and MMX. ) : And they are still slower than a 604e PowerPC. Plus you get that wonderful ) : floating point bug too... ) Yeah, but you don't have to deal with MacOS. Luckily, you don't have to use MacOS on a PPC machine either. These days you have almost as many choices of OS for a PPC-based machine as an Intel-based one. The only drawback is MacOS dominates Mac clones the way Windows dominates PC clones (not because either is good, but because people like the ads). -- James McIninch School of Biology, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0230 james@amber.biology.gatech.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e1e4,a1d82956105c13f4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e1e4,public X-Google-Thread: 108158,a1d82956105c13f4 X-Google-Attributes: gid108158,public X-Google-Thread: ffb89,a1d82956105c13f4 X-Google-Attributes: gidffb89,public From: james@amber.biology.gatech.edu (James McIninch) Subject: Re: Intel Price Drop? Date: 1997/05/12 Message-ID: <5l7nth$kbp@smash.gatech.edu> X-Deja-AN: 241115745 References: <33661F8A.8E8D5A82@prism.gatech.edu> <dean-ya02408000R2904971539010001@news.service.emory.edu> <33775046.1C3C@prism.gatech.edu> <dean-ya02408000R1205971408450001@news.service.emory.edu> <5l7n4j$jeq@smash.gatech.edu> Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Newsgroups: git.ads,git.general,atl.general