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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsreader.jvnc.net!lazlo From: jlucas@uvi.edu (John Lucas) Subject: Re: FIVE GOOD REASONS WHY IBM'S ARE BETTER THAN MACS Message-ID: <DpJo9s.AsI@tigger.jvnc.net> Sender: news@tigger.jvnc.net (Zee News Genie) Organization: University of the Virgin Islands X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 References: <Cyclone-0504961737500001@dial24.trip.net> <31664662.1081143@153.2.170.10> <dke-0604960729360001@adnline68.adnc.com> <960406194934-rrwood@io.org> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 13:01:21 GMT Lines: 41 In article <960406194934-rrwood@io.org>, rrwood@io.org wrote: >In article <dke-0604960729360001@adnline68.adnc.com>, David K. Every >writes: > >< Lots of great Mac-biased stuff deleted > > >Okay, I'm the biggest Mac lover I know, but why the heck was this >cross-posted to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc? > > >> All studies and usage on both machines I have done - and about every >> benchmark I have run (including our own cross-platform app) show that the >> Macs are usually substantially faster than PC's... often a Mac one or two >> whole CLASSES below the PC can still beat it. >> >> Like the 6100/66 that beat my friends P5/120. 1/2 the clock rate, fraction >> the cost, but 10-20% faster. > >I liked this one best. Really pisses-off my PC-owning friends. :-) > >Mind you, I own a P75-based system, too. > Benchmarks are not the entire story or else the MacTribsmen would be switching to DEC Alphas :-} Have you seen the SPECmarks on the 200Mhz Pentium Pro (P6)? It flattens the fastest PowerPC. Does this mean the MacTribesmen will be switching to P6's? I don't think so. The P6 has built-in support for 4 CPUs in parallel, combined with an OS that can do SMP, it ought to scream. SMP has been identified as a future goal for FreeBSD; I can't wait :-} This Mac vs. PC stuff is a pretty hollow excercise, (it can be fun though). Personally I would like to see the transistor budget of the P6 go toward a new, clean architecture rather than the code-museum of backward compatibility, but then I'm not Intel :-} | John Lucas jlucas@uvi.edu | | Academic Computing NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.uvi.edu/jlucas.html |