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- From: dave@philips.oz.au (David Torr)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.001944.2184@philips.oz.au>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 00:19:44 GMT
- Organization: Philips Public Telecommunications Systems, Melbourne, Australia
- Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmar
- References: <Truth_Assassin.0r68@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca>
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- Truth_Assassin@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca (Truth Assassin) writes:
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- >Cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu (chris) Says:
- [lots deleted]
- >
- >> Why hasnt motorola keep up to pace with intel with product
- >> design?
- >
- >They have. Motorola 68040 is more powerful and efficient than Intel's 486.
- >Remember, the P5 is not out, and neither is the 68060 so you can't really
- >"keep pace" based on vaporware promises by companies. Remember, Strike
- >Commander has been advertised for years now, and no show yet.
- >Motorola's 680x0 line of processors, except for the RISC machines, are
- >pretty much the de-facto standard on computer platforms including
- >workstations like the Sparc, etc. It's only IBM clones that use Intels
- >80x86 line..
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- And I always thought a Sparc used a Sparc chip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- And of course HP workstations use their RISC chip, so not sure how "standard"
- the 680x0 is on latest workstations.
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