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Re: Wozniak vs Jobs
- Subject: Re: Wozniak vs Jobs
- From: supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)
- Date: 1998/04/03
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
- References: <6g0m8f$5jt@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>
doug.cotton@cmdweb.com (Doug Cotton) wrote:
>regnirps@aol.com (Regnirps) wrote:
>
>> Jobs also killed an Apple II running the ARM (32 bit, 6 MHz at the time)
that
>> outperformed the Mac.
>
>According to an interview with Bill Mensch, even the 65816 at 4 MHz (which
>it was capable of at the time it was engineered into the GS) could
>outperform the original Mac, and 'Apple' purposely kept the clock speed
>down because of this.
Mensch is probably right...at 4Mhz, the 65816 is doing 8 MIPS,
flattening an 8Mhz 286. The 6Mhz ARM is also doing 8 MIPS.