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Subject: Re: FIVE GOOD REASONS WHY IBM'S ARE BETTER THAN MACS
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From: hybridv@earthnet.net (hybridv)
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 19:33:29 GMT
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On Tue, 16 Apr 1996 19:12:25 -0400, dhassell@diamond.tufts.edu (David
Hassell) wrote:

>Based on the rest of the post (and information I have read), I think he 
>meant to say, "Then why have PC magazines shown that a 150 MHz PPC 604 is 
>faster than a 200 MHz P6?".   It was a typo, and for the record, PC 
>magazines *have* said this...  I would not expect that Intel's line will
>catch up to the Power of the PPC until they switch over to using RISC.
>

well if you knew anything about cpus.. you would know that the p6 is a
risc processor which accepts only cisc instructions then interprets
them into risc instructions and there for the processing power behind
it is risc.. and don't reply with bs like oh well then the
interpreting of the cisc to risc slows it down... NO no NO.. the
interpreter in the cpu actually can interpret faster then the clock
cycles... there is no bottle neck possible then... 





MESSAGE FROM HYBRIDV:

i have changed my style of posting if you haven't noticed yet... i
really just started by correcting some bad info in this thread and got
all wrapped up in the heat of the discussion.. actually if i go back
and re read the posts their funny how serious everyone is... i am
serious when i say that i think the pc platform is better then the mac
platform... but come on some of you go way over board....  no more
insults from this keyboard to all of you... if you don't understand
what i'm trying to say then that is all the insult you need.... and
for cyclone about that error code thingy... i did not know the error
codes for the mac... and i wish i could ask you to tell me error codes
for my pc but my pc never crashes and there for i don't know of any
error codes... my pcs hasn't been rebooted for 1.5 weeks now..!  and
that's with 8+ hours use a day... well laters... i will continue to
answer any questions or correct any fallacies i see.. 

hybridv