Re: Printers/XyWrite 3+/OS2 v3

[Harmon Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx]

... wrote:
>
> Annie wrote:
> Between a responsible press and what you've picked up from
> various comp.os.*.advocacy news groups, the choice of who to
> believe isn't difficult.

  Duh!

"...Early results from running BYTE's 32-bit multiplatform CPU/FPU
BYTEmark tests... indicate that the 200-MHz
603e and 604e outperform the 200-MHz Pentium and Pentium Pro,
respectively." - Dave Andrews & Tom
Thompson, BYTE Magazine, 8/96.

 "In October, Motorola and IBM announced enhanced versions of the
PowerPC 603e microprocessor, including a 240
MHz version that is the fastest volume microprocessor for portable and
desktop computers. These faster versions
will be manufactured by both companies. Simultaneously, UMAX Computer
Corporation began shipping its newest
SuperMac C600 Mac OS-compatible system based on the PowerPC 603e
microprocessor at 240 MHz. Also, Power
Computing Corporation announced its PowerBase line with the same
microprocessor.
The PowerPC 603e microprocessor at 240 MHz offers almost four times the
performance of the original PowerPC
603 microprocessor and exceeds - by 20 percent - IBM and Motorola's
target of reaching 200 MHz by end of 1996."

  We should note that Intel has come close to the end of it's rope
with the X86 architecture, gaining more speed will be quite difficult,
while the PPC has yet to even hit mid-stride.
 

> The sig you adopted well past the
> time it had ceased to be funny on your predecessors' msgs--

  I never thought it was meant to be funny -- it's meant to be both
lucrative and to make MSNet unworkable. A class action suit against MS
for copyright infringement is the end goal.


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