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To: Elmer who wrote (34887)	7/21/1998 12:14:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572777

PPC vs. Pentium II, enjoy: apple.com apple.com Doesn't Intel write those SpecInt benchmarks? Kevin

To: Elmer who wrote (34887)	7/21/1998 12:25:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572777

Elmer - Re: "Well here we are 5 years later and the x86 still beats the PPC. " IBM, Apple and Rotomola(tm Ibexx) started working on the PowerPC chip seven years ago in mid-1991. I think they actually started shipping the PPC 5 years ago. The architecture wasn't "completely" new. It was based on IBM's RIOS RISC architecture and employed the Rotomola 88000 RISC I/O techniques. The best features from the best minds in Processor Design. Paul