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- From: craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: Where the mac really wins
- Followup-To: alt.religion.computers
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 09:00:36 GMT
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
-
- >In article <1g4dqfINN1v0@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division) writes:
-
- >>Waiting for the Alpha II and PowerPC II to blow the P6 out of the water
- > ^^^^^^^ Beta 9-)
- >>more than the current crop blow away the P5.
-
- >Funny.. NT will run on the Alpha, R4000, etc.
-
- Funny.. Neither of those are Intel Processors are they? That means that
- one of "The Enemy" are gone. All I have to do then is work out a cunning
- plan to Engineer the downfall of Microsoft and I will be a happy man.
- Especially as it is looking extremely like Microsoft (another of "The
- Enemy") are trying their hardest to slay poor Intel. Now why is it that
- Intel is selling ethercards? Could it be they still need to sell
- something once the the 8088 based processors can no longer compete with the
- new generation processors.
-
- The P5 may be dual issue, but the rumours I heard said that the
- instructions could only execute simultaneously if they didn't modify the
- flags. Also it has 4 registers and they still aren't general purpose. Now
- I defy you to come up with a set of wholly useful instructions that will
- work with these restrictions in parallel. I think you can count them on
- one hand. Now this of course means that when they build the 32 instruction
- at once version, it will still only actually manage to get about 1-2
- instructions per cycle on average.
-
- I dislike Intel and Microsoft. My previous post was an anti Intel Post and
- has nothing to do with Microsoft. I abuse them enough and I figured it was
- time to gloat about the fact that the PC clone is finally coming to the end
- of its days.
-
- If you think windoze and a pc are better than a mac then I am very happy
- for you because you can save a lot of money. But please don't try to
- convert the rest of us, because we are very happy buying horribly
- overpriced computers from a monopolistic company. I come in to day,
- brimming with excitement at the prospect of using my macintosh all day. I
- like seeing the sickly sweet smiley face when I turn it on. I like the way
- you get to sit around for ages while compiling your programs because my
- SE/30 isn't as fast as a 486DX2-66 which I could buy for the same price. I
- DON'T CARE so please take this conversation to alt.religion.computers where
- it belongs. Followups directed there.
-
- Craig
- --
- Craig Richmond. Computer Officer - Dept of Economics (morning) 380 3860
- University of Western Australia Dept of Education (afternoon)
- craig@ecel.uwa.edu.au Dvorak Keyboards RULE! "Messes are only acceptable
- if users make them. Applications aren't allowed this freedom" I.M.VI 2-4
-