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To: BillHoo who wrote (8259)	2/7/1998 12:32:00 AM
From: Jeff Hayden	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

Bill, I think Digital Equipment went to Compaq, not Intel. I wonder what will happen with the StrongArm processors that DEC made and the Newton uses? Jeff

To: BillHoo who wrote (8259)	2/7/1998 4:29:00 AM
From: Doren	Respond to of 213177

Bill, I donno about the advantages of the DEC Alpha chip over the PPC. I think its faster in integer and not necessarily faster in FPU. Probably is faster running UNIX. DV magazine ran some interesting comparisons in the December between Duel Pentium, Mac, DEC, and SGI workstations. DV is pretty impartial, if anything Windows biased. dvlive.com The results were sometimes surprising. Mostly the machines were roughly comparable. Each had decided advantages. The DECs and SGIs did not intimidate Macs or NT machines. The main advantages to the Mac were price and Quick Time technology. At UCLA our 604 (128Mgz) PPC Macs smoke Duel Processor (200Mgz Pentium) Intergraph Machines when using video software. The main disadvantage was the limited software support for duel processor Macs. 9600 350 Mac = $5600 roughly Cheapest WinTel = $6000+ Most Expensive WinTel = IBM $10,000 DEC = $11,000+ SGI cheapest = $5000+ (but most pros know you'd have to add a lot to this machine to make it functional) Most Expensive SGI = your first born child+ Again, Rhapsody will be a key here since Rhapsody supposedly will scale like UNIX. Doren