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Article #1136Re: Intel Price Drop?
From: Who? Me?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 00:00
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Dean H. Saxe (Remove asterisks in address to reply) (dean@cerevisiae.biology.emory.edu) wrote: > In article <5k5m9a$ad3@catapult.gatech.edu>, ccocsjo@acmey.gatech.edu (Who? > Me?) wrote: > Buy a PowerPC based Macintosh. MHz for MHz they are about twice as fast as > Pentium (PPC604e vs Pentium) and the OS is superior to Windows95, as well. The PowerPC 604e Macs are also much more expensive than a Pentium. I could get a Pentium Pro for the same money. Then, if I run a 32 bit OS, the Mac has no real performance advantage (maybe a slight floating point advantage). In integer performance, the Pentium Pro might even have an edge. At the moment, there is no viable 32 bit OS for the Mac. There is still a fair bit of 68040 emulation code in System 7.6, similar to the 16 bit code in Windows 95. I am not so certain the Mac OS is superior to Windows 95, at least not by much. They both suck. -- John Cronin phone: (404) 894-7563 Office of Information Technology Customer Support Center 0710 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Internet: john.cronin@oit.gatech.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e1e4,a1d82956105c13f4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e1e4,public X-Google-Thread: 108158,a1d82956105c13f4 X-Google-Attributes: gid108158,public X-Google-Thread: ffb89,a1d82956105c13f4 X-Google-Attributes: gidffb89,public From: ccocsjo@acmex.gatech.edu (Who? Me?) Subject: Re: Intel Price Drop? Date: 1997/04/30 Message-ID: <5k67u7$f88@catapult.gatech.edu> X-Deja-AN: 238290741 References: <33661F8A.8E8D5A82@prism.gatech.edu> <dean-ya02408000R2904971539010001@news.service.emory.edu> <5k5m9a$ad3@catapult.gatech.edu> <dean-ya02408000R2904971959430001@news.service.emory.edu> Followup-To: git.ads,git.general,atl.general Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Newsgroups: git.ads,git.general,atl.general