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- From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
- Subject: Re: MAC KNOWLEDGE SOUGHT
- In-Reply-To: daver@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu's message of 24 Jul 1992 17:37:53 GMT
- Message-ID: <D88-JWA.92Jul24221010@dront.nada.kth.se>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <1992Jul24.115253.1@qucdntri.ee.queensu.ca>
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:10:10 GMT
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- > daver@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu (David Ray) writes:
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- Q700: 20 MHz 60040, 32 bit, 1 (?) NuBus slot, built in video
-
- 25 MHz. 2 NuBus + 1 PDS slot.
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- Q950: 33 MHz 60040, 32 bit, several NuBus slots, built in video
-
- Video: The LCII and Quadras have built-in video support, 8-bit color on
- a 600x480 monitor, 16-bit on a 512x384. ** They are compatible
- with most VGA and SVGA monitors as well as Mac monitors.
-
- That's the LCs video. The Quadra video does 24 bpp at 16" screens,
- and 8/16bpp at 21" (700/950) with full video memory (2 MB)
- The only way to get faster video than a Quadra is a Thunder
- card from SuperMac. (Mucho $$$)
-
- OS: The Mac operating system has always had great GUI compared
- to the cluged Windows environment. Has some multitasking
- and backgrounding capabilities unlike DOS.
-
- The consistency and ability of the mac OS is well-known.
- The Finder beats the pants off the Program Manager + File
- Manager (i.e. ICONS STAY WHERE YOU PUT THEM :-)
-
- The Mac OS also comes with most of the bells & whistles
- built-in, like networking, device-independent graphics thats
- more capable than Windows, Sound input/output, etc. etc.
-
- SW: Tons of useful freeware and shareware available, more than
- for the PC. Real (paid) SW takes advantage of the Mac OS --
- backgrounding, transferring data between applications, etc.
-
- Not more SW and FW, but maybe of better quality and better
- user interfaces.
-
- Parallel Centronix printer port: None of the Macintoshes offer
- a parallel port with TTL outputs. This means that some
-
- No, but every mac has LocalTalk built-in, running at 240 kbps, which
- is much faster than a centronix port.
-
- RAM: IBM's have more advanced RAM cache, resulting in faster
- number
- crunching at the same clock speed. Only noticeable if you are
- running something like AutoCad.
-
- This is simply not true. The 68040/33 beats the pants off any 486
- combo for floating-point, with the very advanced built-in cache.
- (Its as fast or faster doing floating point than the Iris Indigo !)
- The IIci also has external caching that's as advanced as that of
- any 386 system.
-
- A motorola processor generally beats the Intel counterpart at the
- same clock frequency.
-
- --
- Jon W{tte, Svartmangatan 18, S-111 29 Stockholm, Sweden
-
- ### You have the Easy Access virus. This virus may cause strange sounds.
- ### You have the 24-bit virus. This virus eats system memory like CRAZY.
-