Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

[ericb@pobox.com (Eric Bennett)]

In article <28OCT199613435699@vax2.concordia.ca>
spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) writes:

> By the same token, it bugs me when PC users
> claim the 8088 PC running at 4.77 MHz, was 4 times faster than a 1.024 MHz
> 6502 Apple II+. :P (It's not!)

Of course not.  A 4.77 MHz 8088 is exactly (within significant figure
limits) 4.66 times faster than a 1.024 MHz 6502.

;-)


-Eric Bennett (ericb@psu.edu; http://emb121.rh.psu.edu)

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