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Article #722268Re: Apple's Biggest Mistakes...
From: Michael E. Chester II
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 00:00
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Blake Winton <bwinto...@incontext.ca> wrote in article <1997Jun11.1...@jarvis.cs.toronto.edu>... > > In article <339DF2...@pe.net>, scott <cha...@pe.net> wrote: > >does ne 1 know how many MIPS a mac 300 mhz prosessor does > >the pentuim II 300mhz can do up to 700-800 MIPS in optimal performance > > Yes, but the comparison is meaningless. Yes, but let's tell him WHY. Especially when comparing different type CPU's i.e. RISC to CISC, MIPS comparisons are near useless. A CISC machine normally will execute at a higher MIPS level, but that is due to their nature: they are designed to do a few instructions very fast. The tradeoff is that it takes many simple instructions to accomplish what a CISC chip does in one instruction. RISC's are also notorious RAM pigs, but that is the nature of the beast... So, the only way to meaningfully compare the two is to compare them running the same applications...and that's hard enough as is... \ / \/enger
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From: "Michael E. Chester II" <mche...@utdallas.edu> Subject: Re: Apple's Biggest Mistakes... Date: 1997/06/12 Message-ID: <01bc7750$294666e0$651c10ac@venger-no-fear.intervoice.com> X-Deja-AN: 248436724 References: <3366BD66.2149@bigfoot.com> <33680303.2A2@NOSPAM.san.rr.com> <5kavq4$6re@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> <5kl38h$9dr@bambam.megatek.com> <336EFDDF.715B@NetJoin.COM> <337981C9.4C60@pacbell.net> <g9404781-2005971743520001@hanmac66.anu.edu.au> <33881F8E.F4FF5228@axess.com> <338f38ff.45957628@news.fyi.net> <5mduca$kei@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <338C75E0.33E9@nospam.surfcity.nb.ca> <33988623.20905773@news.praxis.net> <339C20FC.556F@nospam.surfcity.nb.ca> <339DF294.5DEC@pe.net> <1997Jun11.135448.10323@jarvis.cs.toronto.edu> Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk,alt.bbs,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,alt.wired,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,alt.2600,alt.binaries.misc,alt.hackers.gr MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit