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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,no.amiga
- Subject: Re: FWD: Fate of 68080
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- Date: 26 Jan 1996 01:17:22 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
- : sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem) writes:
-
- : > A 133mhz pentium is near 2 time slower then a 133mhz 604.
-
- : How do you come to this conclusion ? All the benchmarks show that there is
- : a mere 20-25% advantage for the PPC.
-
- I think I mentioned my source for the 'claim', byte magazine int/float
- benchmark... I beleived it knowing the nature of both CPU, but I didn't
- bother to check other source to confirm this.
- Where did you get your figure?
-
- : > The x86 must die... its overpriced junk.
-
- : Probably.
-
- Time will tell..
-
- Stephan
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