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From: sc@qmet.UUCP (Steve Croft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Message-ID: <824@qmet.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 89 17:04:31 GMT
References: <33269@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <9106@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <9106@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
> in article <33269@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, kipnis@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Kipnis) says:
>> 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.

Excuse me, but wouldn't two matrices of this size require about 28 Meg
     (70000 x 50 x 2 x 4 = 28000000)
I believe this is beyond the address space of a "vanilla" (68000) Mac,
n'est pas :)


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