Re: Jaguar on 9600/200MP...?

[David M. Ensteness]

A 266 G3 with a 512K backside cache is actually faster than a 604e 
350MHz processor for many things ... the other helping item was the 
*much* faster RAM in the G3 series. The OS at the time was 8.1 or 8.5 
depending on if you are talking about the very first G3s or slightly 
down the timeline. I am sure there are examples of how the 350 604e can 
beat a 233 G3, but the G3 came out at 233, 266, and 300, and it was a 
faster processor than the 604, it was more scalable, and it used less 
power creating less heat. That plus the move to SDRAM from DRAM and a 
couple other things make a G3 at least slightly superior to a 9600 in 
many [but admittedly not all] respects.

Very off topic, just a couple comments.
Oh and under X the system dynamically allocates processor time for each 
processor by process, so sometimes you will see the OS being driven by 
one and apps being driven by the other, or similar behavior.

Sincerely,
David M. Ensteness
On Nov 4, 2004, at 4:12 PM, Simon Brown wrote:
It would be interesting to bench test that theory.
When the beige G3's were released Apple pulled the 9600 350mhz off the 
market (until people started asking for them again as they wanted 6 
PCI slots) as they were faster than the "new" generation of G3 
machines which admittedly were only running at 233 and 266 mhz. This 
was also under OS 8.5 (if my memory is correct), OSX may be a 
different thing all together.

What would be good is if you could allocate one processor to system 
tasks and the other to application tasks, similar to the way the 
original Radius Rockets were able to be configured.

My 2c worth anyway
Simon
9600 G3/300
G5 1.8 Uniprocessor
iBook 1.2

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