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From: gmp@rayssd.UUCP (Gregory M. Paris)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Harmonic Benchmark - 8086 vs Mac
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Date: Sat, 1-Jun-85 17:13:49 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun  1 17:13:49 1985
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> From: tsc2597@acf4.UUCP (Sam Chin)
> 
>                                               ...  Although these times
> (even the software floating point) are faster than the Mac with a 8 Mhz
> 68000 (Using C), it doesn't mean that for the same clock speed that the 8086
> is faster than the 68000 but rather that Microsoft did a better job in
> implementing the floating point on their C compiler.

It doesn't have to mean that at all.  It probably means that the Mac is
slower because half of it's clock cycles are given up to the video hardware.
The effective 68000 clock rate is only 4Mhz.
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||  Gregory M. Paris                                                        ||
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