Re: TI-H: (OT about Grant's 486/68000)


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Re: TI-H: (OT about Grant's 486/68000)




> >I love how Macintosh compares its laptops with G3 processors to
> >Pentium-I class laptops!
>
>They did that when PIs were the only ones available.

They STILL do it, because it's safer.  I checked the year of printing on a 
bulletin-board sign I saw in my school - 1998, baby.  They know that 
comparing G3s to PIIIs is tricky for them to spin and so they don't try.

> >They're not SUPPOSED to be competitive with G3s,
> >the P/IIs are with their P-Pro core logic!
>
>
>IBM is working on ~700MHz and 1.3GHz models of its G3 chips to put into
>desktops.

So what?  AMD is working on 700MHz K7s and Intel has 1.5GHz projects going.  
Everyone has vaporware; it's meaningless till it comes out.


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