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Laukev7

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PowerPC vs x86 Mac OS X
« on: 13 October 2003, 18:26 »
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/03/10/13/0415224.shtml?tid=107&tid=126&tid=137&tid=181&tid=187

Hopefully this will clear up for once and for all why it would have been a very bad decision to switch to x86 instead of PPC.
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The Anti-Microsoft

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PowerPC vs x86 Mac OS X
« Reply #1 on: 14 October 2003, 01:54 »
It's a very good article.  (Both the Slashdot and The Register)
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« Reply #2 on: 16 October 2003, 05:45 »
basically you have all kinds of processors in the world that our built differently and therefore cannot be judged by common characteristics such as clockspeed.


http://www.sun.com/2003-1014/feature/


that was pretty cool i also thought.
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