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    From Pique@pk@ill_check_the_newsgroup.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Tuesday, July 08, 2003 18:06:25
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    It seems NASA thinks that G5s are pretty fast, and they're independant http://www.macobserver.com/article/2003/07/04.7.shtml


    PK
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  • From andrewunix@agreenbu@nyx.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Wednesday, July 09, 2003 10:50:40
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    Tue, 8 Jul 2003 18:27:40 -0500, nospam@nospam.net suggested:
    : On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 12:06:25 -0500, Pique wrote
    : (in message <080720031806251475%pk@ill_check_the_newsgroup.com>):
    :
    It seems NASA thinks that G5s are pretty fast, and they're independant http://www.macobserver.com/article/2003/07/04.7.shtml


    PK
    :
    : Very interesting. Pretty much proves Megahertz matters.

    Well, yeah, of course it matters. However, it's not the only thing that matters when comparing processor performance. Still, at its rawest, the
    basic idea with processor speed is (size of data) X (CPU frequency).

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  • From russotto@russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto) to comp.sys.mac.system on Wednesday, July 09, 2003 12:59:23
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    In article <0001HW.BB30BD9C0017CA40F0305600@news.texas.net>,
    Hud <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:
    On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 12:06:25 -0500, Pique wrote
    (in message <080720031806251475%pk@ill_check_the_newsgroup.com>):

    It seems NASA thinks that G5s are pretty fast, and they're independant
    http://www.macobserver.com/article/2003/07/04.7.shtml


    PK

    Very interesting. Pretty much proves Megahertz matters.

    Within a chip family, of course. But the 2Ghz G5 Mac running with
    G4-optimized code doing scalar computations managed to match a
    2.66Mhz Pentium4, and the G5 had significantly higher MFLOPS/Mhz than
    the G4 and Pentium.
    --
    Matthew T. Russotto mrussotto@speakeasy.net "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
    of justice is no virtue." But extreme restriction of liberty in pursuit of
    a modicum of security is a very expensive vice.
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