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  Re: [OT] Nostalgia / Was: Re: remove array element after N uses?  
From: Warp
Date: 26 Mar 2009 03:48:01
Message: <49cb3330@news.povray.org>

>         Guess what? Somebody did a benchmark of an old 1986 Mac against a
> dual core AMD64. And the winner is..... the 1986 Mac! By 9 tests to
> 8 (including a whopping six times faster boot sequence):

  How is that comparing a Macintosh with an AMD64? That's comparing the old
MacOS with Windows.

  It is possible to set up a PC so that it uses coreboot and a architecture-
customized lightweight linux distro. You can get from power-on to the end of
the boot sequence in something like 2 or 3 seconds.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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