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To: Doren who wrote (25240)	6/24/1999 6:56:00 PM
From: FruJu	Read Replies (2) of 213176

According to MacSpeedZone a BW 450 is slightly quicker in integer performance than a 550 PIII, however when it comes to floating point processing the 550 PIII is now decidedly faster. This is because fundamentally the G3 chip was never designed to be used in high-end workstations. It has two cycle throughput for double precision floating point (versus 1 for the 604 which shipped 2 years before it), and doesn't support plug'n'play multiprocessing. The G3 was supposed to be the low cost follow on to the 603, and that's all. Then we got all the distractions with Motorola and IBM not agreeing on where to go with PowerPC, splitting up, IBM losing interest, and Motorola having all sorts of problems with getting the G4/Altivec out the door. Originally, the G4 was supposed to have shipped IN SYSTEMS at the end of last year. It's now over half a year late, and looks like it will be at least another half a year. This is why Apple is losing the race at the high end.

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