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Warp wrote:
> "J�r�me M. Berger" <jeb### [at] freefr> wrote:
>>         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's comparing a "standard" computer of 1986 and a "standard"
computer of today for "standard" tasks (i.e Word and Excel which is
what most users actually do when they work on their computers).

>   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.
> 
	Of course, and it is also possible to set up this same computer
with an optimized embedded OS that will be even faster and similar
things were already possible back in '86. But then you're comparing
apples and oranges. The point was to compare typical office use of
computers in '86 and today. And the result is that the '86 computer
was at least as fast as today's.

		Jerome
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