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From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore, Amiga, Apple, and MAC
Message-ID: <5479@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 29 Mar 90 03:06:39 GMT
References: <1994@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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So Apple has discovered coprocessors, eh?  Ironically, I recall a flame
war a couple years back with a bunch of Mac people arguing that the Mac
not having coprocessors was a *benefit*!  

Now that Apple has invented them, I gather they are the slickest things since
laser-etched toast.

Further, as the vendors of various PC boards have been learning, wimpy
coprocessors can be a substantial impediment to performance.  Many vendors
are abandoning their 8088, 80186, etc, processors in favor of much higher
performance ones in, for example, networking and multiport serial boards.

Any Mac apologists care to compare the performance of a 6502 to the
very-obsolete-and-never-particularly-attractive 8088?
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