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- In article <4dh67k$39q@orion.cybercom.net>,
- churchill@cybercom.net (Red October) wrote:
- >parrisc@mail.auburn.edu (Scott L Parrish) wrote:
- >
- >>Adam Roach (exuadam@cnn.exu.ericsson.se) wrote:
- >>: Red October <churchill@cybercom.net> wrote:
- >>: >PS- does anyone know what a P90 with 16 megs of RAM running Executor
- >>: >might be comparable to in Mac terms? Thanks.
- >
- >>: Something like a 30MHz 68040, if I understand correctly.
- >
- >>I own a 25 MHz 68040 and a P75 and I have a really hard time believeing
- >>this. As a test you could take the marthon or marathon II demo's and
- >>press "?" while playing the game. Post the high and low framerates here.
- >
- >>Scott
- >>--
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- >>Scott L. Parrish Graduate Student
- >>Dept. Of Zoology parrisc@mail.auburn.edu WAR EAGLE!
- >>Auburn University parrisc@freenet.fsu.edu, scottp@iris.ag.auburn.edu
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- >Actually, I read someplace (after I posted this) that a P90 with 16 MB
- >of RAM was comparable to a 45Mhz. Quadra 610. I'm quite sure that's
- >what they said. How fast is that for a Mac, as I have no idea?
- >
- >
- >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- >Red October
- >churchill@cybercom.net
- >
- >"Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on
- >earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second
- >is a cow that has been dropped out of a
- >helicopter. How long, traveling at top speed,
- >will it take the cow to travel 360 feet?"
- > -Dave Barry Slept Here
- >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- >
-
-
- As a long time MAC & PC user, the CPU rates stated here and elsewhere - at
- least according to Speedometer 3.23 are fairly accurate - but other than
- getting Speedometer, BinHex 5 and Compact Pro to work - I have not obtained a
- a lot of success to get Programs to work right. Unfortunately for me, most of
- the programs that I want to run require System 7 - and that functionality
- (getting to run Sys 7 programs ) is not working 100 %. The program is
- essentially emulating System 6.0.7 which Apple stopped shipping with their
- computers over 3 years ago. I did get an old MAC chess program (Psion) to
- play chess but only at the instant response level. The Speedometer indexes
- increase roughly 25% in DOS mode over Win95 - and on my 90 mhz machine that
- translated to a CPU index of 23 on Speedometer - roughly equalivent to a 25-30
- mhz 68040. That index in quite impressive, the other indexes are nearly as
- impressive compared to 'real' MAC. Considering that Apple has not assisted
- these folks in any way - this is an impressive piece of software.
-
- The software runs without any control panels or inits - a 'real' mac user has
- many of these little programs at the tip of their finger tips - and of course
- it's not multi-processing aware - to run two applications; you must run it
- under windows and start it twice. So it really doesn't have the feel of a
- MAC - but hey - it plays that little Risk game like a champ.
-
- Mike
-
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