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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Sheckel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Stellar 7 re-release
Message-ID: <937@stewart.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 90 21:43:50 GMT
References: <26860.chatter.infoapple@pro-beagle>
Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Sheckel)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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lhaider@pro-beagle.cts.com (Laer Haider) writes:
>>
>>It isn't.  Even the oldest PC clones with 8088 processors are at least
>>twice as fast as stock IIgs's, and the 8088 processor has a much more
>>functional instruction set than the '816.
>>
>
>HA HA HA!  Jeez, stupid people can be so funny.
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Geez, this sure sounds like nervous laughter to me!  Look pal, this stuff
just isn't life-threatening enough for you to insult anyone, OK?  Chill --
there's no need to lose hair over this.

>
>Have you ever TRIED comparing the two?
>

I've worked with both at the machine language level.  That the 8088 has
a more functional instruction set is a fact.  Speed -- OK, this is a tougher
question.  The things I have done have definitely been faster on the PC.
As for commercial applications, could you show me one which is comparable
to a similar PC package and is faster?  Besides, comparing the two isn't
fair, since the PC is a few years older; even if the two machines are similar
in performance (and they're not), the IIgs is still way behind the times.
Show me any PC made after 1982 and I'll show you a machine that'll blow the
IIgs away every time.

Look.  I like the GS.  It has nice graphics and fantastic sound.  But that's
what it's made for -- graphics and sound (GS).  It doesn't perform at dozens
of MIPS, but there's nothing wrong with that.   The machine has its uses and
has the hardware to be an excellent system for the home (but not the price or
the software).  However, when people begin comparing its performance with to
of modern PC's and workstations, they are really stepping over the line.

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I should have known this guy was some kind of a fanatic.
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