Gervase Markham wrote:
>
> > Well -- Technically speaking the Power PC chip is equivalent to double
> > its Pentium III equivalent because its a RISC Chip as opposed to a CISC
> > chip which a Pentium mostly is. (I been told Pentium is a hibrid)
>
> For an engineer, that's a shocking trivialisation and misrepresentation of
> the difference between RISC and CISC (in terms of relative speed of one
> over the other.) :-)
>
> Gerv
Shocking but true. read some back issues of MacWorld.
Also, true UNIX is designed exclusively to work most efficiently on a
RISC Processor.
The original PowerPC Chip (in the 6100/7100/8100) were based on a RISC
Chip from a UNIX Workstation.
So OS-X which is basically BSD 4.4 UNIX will fly.
So you can run UNIX natively on a Mac, the Mac OS Natively, and Windows
either through a Card or emulator Software. So a Mac can run three
different operating system's.
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