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From: ianr@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Ian ROWLANDS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Motorola vs Intel (who's faster?)
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Date: 20 Jul 90 03:14:19 GMT
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In article <9007170742.AA16055@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> FVEST@DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU (Floyd Vest) writes:
>
>"James P. Dusek" <dusek@motcid.uucp> wrote:
>
>>The really important rating is MIPS.MIPS are how many instructions a
>>machine runs per second.Higher clock speeds mean higher mips.
>
>Didn't I see you in an Apple commercial? :-)

	Speak of Apple commercials (sorry, may not be that relevant), I'll show
you, to the best of my ability, the Mac ads being shown in Australia.

If you don't want to see it, hit 'n' now



SCENE : Office full of computers, many other computers, and one Mac.
	Boss overlooking the office, assistant comes over to him.

Assist:	You've been staring out there all day. What are you doing?
Boss:	Testing.
A:	Testing what?
B:	Computers. I'm trying to figure out which is the most powerful.
A:	That's easy. The one with the most - Megabytes, MIPS, you know.
B:	No, I don't think so. I think the most powerful is the one that
	people actually use.

(cut away to a lady kicking somebody off the Mac)

(Apple logo and a short voiceover)

A: 	That's not a fair comparison. People like using the Mac!



	That's the marketing we see down here. The Amiga marketing is, ummmm,
(let's see, television started in 1956, have I seen an ad since then? Oh yeah,
 one just before christmas, with John Laws). In a nutshell, it doesn't exist.
Plenty of Commodore PC ads, but no Amiga ads.
	
	Unless the ads you see are vastly different to those here, I don't
think that quote came from an Apple ad.

	Followups to c.s.a please.

				Ian

P.S. I quoted the ad from memory - to any other Australians, don't correct me
     unless I made a SERIOUS transcription error. And mail me about it.

Ian Rowlands                      | ianr@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (main)
Dept. of Electrical Engineering,  | ianr@gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au
 (including Computer Science)     | ianr@munmurra.cs.mu.oz.au (to 7/90)
University of Melbourne           | (How can you have a funny quote in only 4 li