Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

[David Moles <deivu@eccosys.com>]

Mitchell Spector wrote:
>  
>     This is a common misconception - megahertz rating between different
> processors. The Macintosh Plus had a 68000 rated at 7.8 MHz, while
> the Apple IIgs had a 65C816 rated at 2.8 MHz. Does this mean one machine
> is 5x faster because there is a difference of 5 MHz? No, of course not.
> Roughly speaking, from using the two, I'd say they ran about the same
> (both sluggish ;). So the Mac Plus didn't have any real speed advantages
> over the stock Apple IIgs. 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!)

Okay, here's what I want to see, from someone who has access
to all the hardware: SPECint92 and SPECfp92 for the IIc or IIe,
the Mac 512, the PC, and the IIgs. Then we'd have something to
compare.

--D