POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Mac slow? : Re: Mac slow? Server Time
10 Aug 2024 05:18:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Mac slow?  
From: Chris Huff
Date: 24 Feb 2000 05:39:01
Message: <chrishuff_99-1EB639.05402524022000@news.povray.org>
In article <38B4DE89.8474C3DD@pobox.com>, Anton Sherwood 
<bro### [at] poboxcom> wrote:

> I recently replaced my Mac clone (PPC, 180 MHz) with a Linux box (K7,
> 550 MHz).

Besides the things Peter Popov mentioned...
Which PPC? Was it a 601 or 603? I think those were quite slow at 
floating point calculations, at least when compared to more current 
ones...and what about the processor cache? Bus speed? Amount of RAM? 
There is a lot more to speed than just MHz.

-- 
Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/


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