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From: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: The New Macs: Greedy Compromises?
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Date: 8 Dec 90 06:42:55 GMT
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lange@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange) writes:

>And, since you mentioned Mathematica, the 68040 NeXT has been benchmarked
>to run it 50% faster than a Sparcstation 1+.  So much for RISC
>architectures.  :-)

  That should probably be "so much for Sparc architectures".  Check
out the other RISC chips (MIPS, IBM POWER, Motorola) which leave the
Sparc in the dust.

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