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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Message-ID: <9106@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 19 Dec 89 22:31:44 GMT
References: <33269@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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in article <33269@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, kipnis@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Kipnis) says:
> Xref: cbmvax comp.sys.amiga:48425 comp.sys.ibm.pc:44674 comp.sys.mac:47930

> Please give a single example of what you can do faster on a mac than on a pc.

Please multiply these two matrices:

	long A[70000][50],B[50][70000];

Any vanilla Mac with enough memory can do this more efficiently than any PC you
can buy for the same price.  Others can take it from there.

> There probably ISN'T a single command that you can perform faster with a mac 
> than pc.

There probably is, but who's talking about _single_ commands anyway.

If you're not running OS/2 on your PC machine, there are MANY things a Mac can
do better than a PC (the current Mac OS and OS/2 each support the same amount
of memory).  I'm using a different 680x0 based computer, but the same rules apply.
I regularly use a DTP program that's almost 400K in size.  I often fire up the
companion drawing program, another 270K, while the DTP program is still running.
Both programs, a drawing, and the 100 page manual I'm working on is all in real
memory.  You could simulate this on a PC by swapping to disk or bank-switching
memory, but there's no way this is going to be as fast under MS-DOS as it would
be on my Amiga or a Mac under Multifinder.  And I have about 10-15 other smaller
things running in the background most of the time.  OS/2 could probably do the
same things, though it would take significantly more memory, it's less efficient,
and it's limited to 16 megs of address space.

> gary
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