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From: aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS -- Just say "Why?"
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.232839.29126@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 91 23:28:39 GMT
References: <13297@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <1991Mar6.110826.11844@silvlis.com> <c4xA02P505zb01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
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kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard) writes:
>In article <...> jimb@silvlis.com (Jim Budler) writes:
>>[someone else]
>>>As for you MS-DOS users, I'm sorry, but you just don't have the power that
>>>we Macintosh users do.  Arguing that your machines "crunch numbers" faster
>>>isn't really all that true -- the Motorola math chips are usually faster.
>>I'm sorry, guy. It's really all that true.  I can go buy a $1800 33 MHz 386
>>DOS machine that'll blow the doors off of my $4000 Mac II. Or for $2500
>>I can get a 486 and do still better.
>So true.  Both Intel and Motorolla processors are comprable neither is
>superior.

And this from COMP.SYS.IBM.PC.MISC:

ruthenb@bgsuvax.UUCP (Joe Ruthenberg) writes:
>This is in spite of the fact that the Motorola processor is a much
>better processor then the 80x86 series.


Brian aslakson@cs.umn.edu
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