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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:47:59 GMT
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- In article <trimble.724558422@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu> trimble@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu (Chris Trimble) writes:
- > Sound Blaster - sorry, but most people have more serious things to do
- > with their Macs than play "Wing Commander II" (BTW - don't forget that
- > DOS machines have the biggest game market out there. Don't think people
- > are just buying them for BUSINESS....). Are you talking about Ether cards?
- > $150. SCSI cards .. oh, that's right - that's built into the Macintosh :)
- > Um... mouse cards? oh -- that's also built into the Mac. Video cards? Well,
- > unless you need more than 16-bit graphics (IIvx), which 95% of people
- > DON'T anyway, you won't need one of those for the Mac, either.
-
-
- True, but I can buy <$200 24 bit cards forthe PC. I know of
- at least two that you can buy *retail* for that much.
-
- Of course, they don;t integrate very well. PC's can do the
- 24 bit thing cheaper, but badly. But can they due the seamless
- monitor thing--even badly?
-
-
- >> Why hasnt motorola keep up to pace with intel with product design?
- >
- > Good point. Motorola had a hard time producing the 040 at first, so there
- > weren't a whole lot off of the assembly line right away. As far as
- > cutting the data busses in half, like Intel does for the 486sx, 386sx, etc,
- > why does make Intel more advanced with product design. Motoroller is working
- > on the PowerChip as much as Intel is working on the P5, I'm sure.
-
-
- I believe he's referringto Motorola's apparent inability to
- get a faster version of the '040 out the door. Just so you know,
- though, Motorola does produce crippled chips. Not crippled
- like Intel (FYI, the 386 dx halves the bus, the 486sx does not--
- it doesn't include a mathco)--they produce an MMUless version of
- the '030 (Amiga products use this to add cheap-030 cards, since
- Amigados doesn't use the MMU).
-
- Motorola is waaay behind in getting anythingout the door. The 88k
- market, which looked at one time to be a big part of the future
- of computing withered and died as motorola not only failed to
- fix a glaring and obvious bug in the first (and only) 88k
- (the cache fill problem)--how long overdue is the 88110?
-
- They also seem to have sunk pretty low, lower than Intel even,
- with their, "We're not going to make a '050 because the 060 will
- be soooo good!!" nonsense.
-
-
- >> If macs are so easy to use, then why is it that in our computers
- >>labs that macs are generally unused. (This is very true.)
- >
- > Heh. Probably because the operators are too short-sighted to figure
- > out how to link them together - so people can ACTUALLY DO THEIR WORK
- > BETWEEN THE TWO (yes, it can be done!). So people who have always had
- > their work on the PCs stay there because there isn't an effort to try
- > to even out the usage in the lab (by buying WordPerfect/Mac, Lotus123/Mac)
-
-
- Umm, I can say that it's the opposite here at UofMD. Generally,
- it's much easier to get a PC than a Mac.
-
- >Chris Trimble | Let me hear you make decisions
- >B.I. Systems Services | without your television.
- >chris1@uiuc.edu | Let me hear you speaking just for me. - Martin Gore
-
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