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- From: jonathan@rahul.net (Jonathan Heiliger)
- Subject: Re: P5 v. PowerPC (WAS: Where the mac really wins)
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 20:59:24 GMT
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- John F. Woods (jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM) wrote:
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- > It occurs to me that another technical glitch the Alpha presents may have
- > been more significant -- the Alpha is a 64 bit chip (I assume PowerPC is
- > 32 bits), and there's a lot more code that stumbles over data-*size* problems
- > than byte-order; the Berkeley networking code will again show lots of
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- I would hope that the PowerPC is a 64bit chip. Otherwise it won't stand a
- chance in competition with workstation class machines; even the lower end
- ones.
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