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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
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- Date: 25 Mar 1996 23:13:20 GMT
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- Babbage (babbage@dmu.ac.uk) wrote:
- : > (PowerPC: btw, I bought a
- : > book and studied it, and I'm very disappointed: IT SUCKS, all the other RISCs
- : > are better, starting from the old and cheap Transputers)
-
- : > Who will support such an anonymous abort? If I wanna program the PC hardware,
- : > I program the PC. The PowerPC CPU *sucks bigtime*, if I've to learn another
- : > CPU, why should I learn PowerPC and not 80x86 that gives some food back?
-
- : I dunno
- : from what some of my mates and me have seen/etc. bout the ppc
- : it isnt all that bad.
- : 808x86 is -> end of its time
- : ppc is just beginning
- : lets not forget that
-
- The x86 will still evolve for the next few years... today x86 with their
- high mhz and including 'all' risc feature are not that bad looking
- at the speed result. check a spec95 table, the P6 is above any PPC,
- and I think for a short while on top for int performance.
-
- but I would take PPC asm any day over the big mixture intel now have
- in the x86.
-
- Stephan
-