Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

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regnirps@aol.com (Regnirps) wrote:

Regnirps = Springer?

>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.
>
>Yes, however, the foks from ACORN (6502 based BBC Computer 2MHz) visited
>Western Design to look at the 816 and were pretty disapointed. On the way
>home on the plane decided they could design something better than that slug
>in their sleep. Thus the ARM, Acorn Risk Machine, later Advanced Risk
>Machine) wasborn.
>
>Less than 20,000 transistors and went like a bat out-a-hell.

The 65816 at 8Mhz does 4 MIPS and at 16Mhz does 8 MIPS.
The ARM at 6Mhz does 8 MIPS.  That makes the ARM faster...but
the 816 is not bad compared to your 286 or original Mac.