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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!chalmers.se!etek.chalmers.se!news
  2. From: janolov@cdg.chalmers.se (Jan-Olov Lantto)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: Farewell to the Mac? (not flame)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov23.093203.25563@etek.chalmers.se>
  6. Date: 23 Nov 92 09:32:03 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov17.193022.44891@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <trimble.722112979@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov19.005422.15975@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <Bxzry1.9D4@world.std.com>
  8. Sender: news@etek.chalmers.se (USENET News System)
  9. Organization: Chalmers University of Technology
  10. Lines: 24
  11.  
  12. Just to set thing right.
  13.  
  14. Quote from Apple Direct July 1992 concerning PowerPC:
  15.  
  16. "The PowerPC chips will be the next step in the Macintosh computer s second
  17. decade. For years to come, Macintosh computers will come in two "families"-
  18. Motorola 680x0 -based and PowerPC-based."
  19.  
  20. Quote from Apple Direct July 1992 concerning emulating 680x0:
  21.  
  22. "Pagemaker spent 88 percent of its total execution time in the Toolbox,
  23. while the numerically intensive Excel still spends about two-thirds (67
  24. percent) of its time there."
  25.  
  26. "the top three routines-which account for over half the total time-are
  27. DrawText, EraseRgn, and Line"
  28.  
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  30. *                   Jan-Olov Lantto - Research Engineer                   *
  31. *                    Dept. of Electrical Power Systems                    *
  32. *                    Chalmers University of Technology                    *
  33. *                       S-412 96, Goteborg, SWEDEN                        *
  34. *                         janolov@cdg.chalmers.se                         *
  35. ***************************************************************************
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