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To: Mark Palmberg who wrote (11677)	4/17/1998 2:03:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

Did the cat run away? Ideally you would be able to buy a naked motherboard, like Wintels and then buy all the parts wherever. Put on a peltier effect cooler and run as fast as possible. This is still expensive compared to the same face MHZ number of Wintels, say 300 P-II, even though the P-II bus is a mere 66. There is no doubt that the G3 out performs the same speed Intel chip. I would like to see a CPU only comparison between and G3 300 and a Pentium-II 300, with no use of external bus at all. Run a benchmark entirely in the same sized L-2 cache and see how it does. The faster G3 bus does help it a great deal. Does the card bus also run at 151 when you clock it to 302? The Intels have the PCI bus only now going to 100 and the ISA frozen at 33 Mhz.(soon to be gone with win2000/NT?) and this does cripple them greatly. Eric should suggest Apple sell motherboards to give a start to that market at a reasonable price. They might just ignite another level of interest. Many would buy a couple of those and build them up. My first IBM clone board ran naked on foam with cards plugged in and all the stuff and cables draped all over.XT, cost a grand. One problem is the standard foot print and power connection etc. I do not think you can remove mother boards and swap them like you can on Wintels. You can go from an XT(8088)-AT(286)-386-486-Pentium in the Wintels and the case fits all and power supply fits all. P-II is different footprint and power supply.(there are a few ISA footprint P-II motherboards that take the AT case and power supply) If there was a standard case a clone market could grow with all motherboards made by Apple, interesting concept. Bill