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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
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- Subject: Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 04:45:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.023109.27911@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle) writes:
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- >>takes care of the hardware. So no advantage to the Mac here. I don't see
- >>why System 7 should have any less overhead than Windows would when doing
- >>graphics. If you have a video accelrator card installed, the drivers have
- >>to do a simpler job. If you don't theres all that low-level writing to the
- >>hardware that needs to be done. Doesn't matter whether you have a Mac or
- >>a PC.
- >
- >This would be the case if Windows was as well optimized as System 7.0 w.r.t.
- >graphics. In my experience, this is NOT the case. I don't have a good
- >Windows machine (what an oxymoron) available to test with now-days, so I
- >can't give numbers. Most Windows machines that can keep up with a Mac
- >with an equally fast CPU have a graphics accelerator, whereas the Mac
- >doesn't.
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- This may be true, but that'll mean comparing an Si to a very low-end
- 386 (20 MHz?). I'll add that the _only_ impartial criterion for com-
- paring machines of different architecture is price.
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- >>See my post elsewhere about some actual benchmarks using Excel. A
- >>386SLC (16 bit bus) recalcs a sheet twice as fast in Excel as a IICi
- >>does. A 486/25 will blow the ci out of the water.
- >
- >Excel may be relatively well optimized on Windows; I seem to remember a
- >Byte spreadsheet comparison that showed that it was at least close, in
- >terms of speed to its competitors. On the Mac, WingZ is MUCH faster than
- >Excel. Excel is a dog, a nicely polished one, but still a dog.
-
- OK. Easy way to prove this. Do my spreadsheet in WingZ _and_ Excel on
- your machine and post the results.
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- You can get WingZ for Windows too, by the way. Excel 4 beats it (and
- 1234W) in features (ones I actually use, mind you) and ease of use.
- I'll bet if I ran 123 v. 2.0 (where is that disk?) alone under DOS
- I'd get screaming performance - better than Excel 4. But why would I?
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