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- From: god@hale.cts.com (David J. Calabrese)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
- Message-ID: <owRRVB7w165w@hale.cts.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 03:17:59 PST
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- ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
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- > In article <1992Dec11.023109.27911@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu
- >
- > >>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.
- >
- > This may be true, but that'll mean comparing an Si to a very low-end
- >
- > OK. Easy way to prove this. Do my spreadsheet in WingZ _and_ Excel on
- > your machine and post the results.
- >
- >
- > 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?
-
-
- Wow, it's a good thing that all this arguing about platforms
- is keeping us from doing anything that's actually productive.
-
- Personally, I think the the RISC technology in the Super
- Nintendo makes the best price/performance combo. Also,
- with the new SCSI-II joystick interface with auto-fire
- (at up to 33Mhz -- I'd like to see an alien space-craft
- even TRY to survive that!), the file-server potential
- is nearly unlimited...
-
- * david j. calabrese *
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