Re: Micro$loth Windoze 95 Badges - how they should be

[blasirs@draco.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Robert_S Blasi)]

In article <42ppje$cq6@chnews.ch.intel.com>,
Timothy Jehl -FT-~ <tjehl@sedona.intel.com> wrote:
>
>   If you get some free time with nothing better to do, try to bring up
>the latest version of a Word in emulation mode, and compare it to a

	The latest version of Word is notoriously _unoptimized_ for Power 
Macintosh. Why don't you try a fair comparison, like QuarkXPress across 
both platforms, for example?


>basic entry level P75 box.  It is silly for Power PC people to harp on

	He said that his emulation runs at 486 speed. Not at Pentium 
speed.


>this emulation capability.  Go ahead and argue the merits of the box,
>as it's not a bad machine, but to argue it's PC compatibility features
>is, at best, disingenuous.  If your primary purpose is to run PC software,
>it would be an incredibly foolish decision to buy a PPC box.
>
	This is true, but some of us are in the unenviable situation of 
preferring Macintosh and having to run Windows applications not available 
for the Mac, for whatever reason.


>TJ Jehl          tjehl@sedona.intel.com 
			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	Ah! No wonder why you're upset by "PowerPC people harping on 
emulation capability." For future reference, this emulation capability is 
either done on the hardware level by an actual 486 processor on a card in 
the Macintosh, or on the software level. It's not unique to PowerPC 
processors; but the speed certainly helps when trying to emulate such an, 
uh, "interesting," processor. How's that P6 coming along, by the way?


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