Re: Apple and the Holy War

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

But the Pentium III's architecture is far more advanced over
the 286 than the G4's over the Athlon.  But the rule still
applies.  It would just take a greater (theoretical) clock speed
A 5000Ghz 286 might be able to match a 1Ghz Athlon in
integer operations, for instance.  Just a guess.

Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:

>So going with the idea of clock speed being so important then
>you're led to the obvious conclusion that a 286 that had a clock
>speed of twice that of say a Penyium III whould whip it's but easily.
>Yeah, Right!!!
>
>Supertimer wrote:
>
>>  This is a 2:1 clock rate advantage over the fastest G4.
>> No matter how much better the G4 is and even if it can keep
>> up in SOME software with half the clock speed, in MOST
>> applications, the Athlon will beat it.  It might not be able to
>> beat it with the same clock speed, but with twice the clock
>> speed it would.