Re: Quadra 840 AV vs. 601 Pmacs

[Sherman Chen]

Actually, your friend is wrong (so I guess you have won the bet).  With 
the PowerPC chip, Apple basically had something like an RS6000 
workstation.  There is no way the Motorola 68040 can do the kind of 
real 3D rotation that is done on the graphics calculator (one of the 
freebies that come with the PowerPC Mac to show off the speed of the 
CPU).  However, that said, those newer Macs do suck when it comes to 
running any of the older software written for the older Mac because 
it's running in emulation.  Eventually, those apps got upgraded and the 
chip got faster and it became a non-issue, until OSX comes along and 
now all the OS9 and earlier software are running in emulation again.

Sherman
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On Mar 20, 2005, at 2:44 PM, Tim Maloney wrote:
Settle a bet. I was telling a friend of mine, who started with macs 
when the
Power Mac7100s came out, that the 840s were actually faster than the 
first
Power Macs. Apple went the way of the PPC because they knew faster 
speeds
were more attainable with the PPC architecture than with 68k, but those
first attempts weren't quite there, as nice as they were.

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