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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
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- References: <1go0plINNjpo@ub.d.umn.edu> <trimble.724558422@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec17.124759.28672@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:09:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.124759.28672@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >In article <trimble.724558422@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu> trimble@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu (Chris Trimble) writes:
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- > 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?
-
- Depends how you use them. Windows usually has pretty up-to-date drivers
- for just about everything within a month or two of release.
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- > 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).
-
- Hmmm the 386SX is the halved bus chip. The 68040/25 does supposedly
- use clock doubler technology (so went a post I read here - I can't
- confirm it) so its faster than a straight 486DX/25.
-
- >> 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)
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- Our more advanced users here do this. I can (and do) run Excel on either
- platform with the data files residing on a Novell volume somewhere.
-
- > Umm, I can say that it's the opposite here at UofMD. Generally,
- > it's much easier to get a PC than a Mac.
-
- Over here it depends on where you are in terms of the semester. Early
- on the Mac labs are more heavily used. Later in the middle of the semes-
- ter the PC labs are quite a bit busier. This is because earlier in the
- semester the students figure that its easier to read e-mail and write
- simple letter on the Mac. Later they'll have had a class or two under
- their belts and/or they lose a term paper or two due to Mac crashes and
- start doing their serious work on the PCs.
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