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On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Pat Barber wrote: > The Power Mac is running One(1) thing at a time(last time I looked) > and which "modern" language are you referring to ?? As I stated, > this is a silly discussion and comparing two very unlike boxes is > a waste of mailing list space. Waste of space? Maybe. Interesting though... The power mac cpu, like all cpus in wide distribution, runs one thing at a time. This is no different than the iSeries cpu. The power mac OS is multi-tasking just like OS/400. Whether it multi-tasks as well as os/400 is the subject of testing. > If we had a EE type on the list,perhaps he/she could lead us in > a discussion of "clock speed" vs "processor speed". Well fortunately we have this very useful link which compares the P4 cpu to the G4. http://www.arstechnica.com/cpu/01q2/p4andg4e/p4andg4e-1.html James Rich james@eaerich.com
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