Re: How fast is the mac

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From: Nick Flor
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 1984 20:38

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Okay,
I've read all your replies on who *relatively* fast the mac
is, and it all boils down to this-
The mac is relatively slow.
If it isn't accessing the built in ROM routines, (@ 7.8 mhz) then
it must be accesing ram (@4 mhz).  Since most user programs
reside in RAM, how can this be fast?

Someone replied saying that the MAC'S graphics are blazingly fast.

My HP9836 has a 68k microprocessor running at 8mhz.
I wrote some low-level graphics primitives for that,
and although they are extremely fast, I don't consider
them "blazingly fast", so all this hype about the MAC
having blazingly fast graphics is a bunch of CACA.

Please speak in relative terms when talking of speed,
ie. the mac is blazingly faster than an IBM PC,
    or
    the mac is blazingly faster than an apple ][+,

Hey, don't flame me, I'm going to buy one.
But I'm not going to buy one because of all the
hype involved, I am getting one because it has the
best price/performance ratio.

-Nick "can't be fooled by hype" Flor

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