Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!midway!quads.uchicago.edu!jcav From: jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john cavallino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Benchmarks Message-ID: <1991Apr26.192243.10980@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 26 Apr 91 19:22:43 GMT References: <1991Apr26.145202.15613@beaver.cs.washington.edu> <73258@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 18 In article <73258@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> jmpiazza@acsu.buffalo.edu (Joseph M. Piazza) writes: >graham@june.cs.washington.edu (Stephen Graham) writes: >>dubach1@husc9.harvard.edu (joev dubach) writes: >>>Slower than the SE, I can believe; but _nothing_ is slower than the >>>plus. Nothing. >>Obviously, someone who's never even seen a Mac 128. > Or a Lisa 2/Mac XL. Yeah, the Lisa was definitely the slowest (a 68000 at only 6mhz!!!). It had a REALLY nice user-interface, though. In some areas the Mac is only just now beginning to catch up. Too bad they tried to charge $10,000 for the Lisa. If it had been affordable, people would have bought it. Oh well. -- John Cavallino | EMail: jcav@midway.uchicago.edu University of Chicago Hospitals | USMail: 5841 S. Maryland Ave, Box 145 Office of Facilities Management | Chicago, IL 60637 B0 f++ w c+ g+ k s(+) e+ h- pv (qv) | Telephone: 312-702-6900