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- From: f88hv@efd.lth.se (Henrik Vallgren)
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.161422.10231@lth.se>
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- Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
- References: <BzoBtM.6Jv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Jan5.115644.9215@uxmail.ust.hk>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:14:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.224200.22219@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> merrifie@cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael C Merrifield) writes:
- >
- >
- > "Recent Studies Reveal 25MHz Is Now Faster Than 50MHz"
- >
- >"Ingram Benchmark Results, March 1992 - 25 and 33 MHz 040 Macintosh Quadra
- >Outruns the 486 at 33 and 50 MHz."
- >
- >"This revelation is brought to you by the Apple Macintosh and the Motorola
- >68040." The add goes on to say that Ingram Labs (an independent PC testing
- >firm) compared the newest 040 Macs (Quadra 950 and 700) to several of the
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- First, about the "independent" firm: they we're hired by Apple right ?
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- Second, the 50MHz 486 was an ALR BusinessVEISA, probably WITHOUT the
- optional cache card, which means a 50MHz computer NO cache and 80ns
- memory. Anyone wan't to calculate WAITSTATES here ?
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- Third, how come that the 33MHz where only 4% faster than a 25MHz machine ?
- Now if this was true processor performance the difference should be > 30%.
- Let me guess - Motorola doesn't make math coprocessors - who would buy them ?
-
- Henrik Vallgren
- f88hv@efd.lth.se
-