Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

>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.

Correction to the above -- that should have read:

Mensch is probably right...at 8Mhz, the 65816 is doing 4 MIPS,
flattening an 8Mhz 286.  The 6Mhz ARM is doing 8 MIPS...

The average IBM AT kept up with your original Mac quite well.