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- From: oleary@staff.tc.umn.edu
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- Subject: Re: PC is faster than Mac? Myth or Truth?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.203501.11268@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 20:35:01 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news2.1992Dec20.203501.11268
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- In article <1992Dec20.124013.998@sc2a.unige.ch> kanala@sc2a.unige.ch writes,
- among other things:
-
- >In article <18DEC199221474055@rosie.uh.edu>, mece1us@rosie.uh.edu writes:
- >> I would like to know whether PC is really faster than a Mac for the same
- >> clock speed and similar model CPU.
- >
- >Yes and no. PC is not faster than a Mac for the same speed and similar model
- >CPU when running similar user interface, like Macintosh system software and
- >MS-Windows applications launcher. However, PC _is_ faster than Mac when running
- >bare MS-DOS, especially in calculations, because of lack of the overhead for
- >the slow screen redraw, system code overhead (SANE, Stardand Apple Num.
- >Environment), etc.
-
- No. Can be, perhaps, but not is. I wrote a C program under Unix that needed
- to be run to a portable computer. I used Borland C++ 3.1 on a Zeos (I
- think) 386/20 under MS-DOS 5.0 for the PC port and Think C 4.0 on a
- Powerbook 140 ('030/16) under System 7 for the Mac port. Both were minimal
- ports. On a certain, representative data set, the PC version took about
- 4min 55sec to analyze the data. On the same data, the Mac version took about
- 1min 40sec. We then tested the program on a Toshiba (again, I think) 486/16
- (also MS-DOS 5.0) and it took about 1min 30sec. The Toshiba and Powerbook
- were about the same price.
-
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