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From: aalpern@hampshire.edu (Adam Alpern)
Subject: Re: Short impression: 68k MCL on PowerBook 5300ce
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Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 02:57:13 -0400
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In article <199601161906.OAA08752@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>, jtw@lcs.mit.edu
(John Wroclawski) wrote:

>    From: Shannon V Spires <svspire@somnet.sandia.gov>
> 
>    I don't know what's going on in a PB5300, but it's definitely the wrong
>    thing. When Be, Inc. can take two of the same processors, clock them
>    slower, and drop the jaws of everybody at MacWorld, you know these
>    Powerbooks are flawed somehow. (No flames please. I know this is an unfair
>    comparison because of the two different OS's, but it still makes you
>    wonder.)
> 
> Has very little to do with the OS, I'd say.
> 
> PB5300's have no second-level cache hardware. Lisp, and anything else
> with a working set larger than a few KB, is going to lose in this

While this is a little off topic....

Actually, the BeBox has no secondary cache either. I believe the 
difference comes from the fact that the BeOS is all native PPC code,
while System 7.5 is hampered by being largely emulated (file manager, 
resource manager, etc, etc, etc...)

>                  -john


-Adam

