Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 08:12:27 05/19/02
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On May 19, 2002 at 11:00:49, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On May 19, 2002 at 09:02:21, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On May 18, 2002 at 22:41:10, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>Please don't quote the nonsense from motorola. >> >>Sure the G4 is a nice processor but 750Mhz is pretty slow. >>Actually it is theoretic impossible it outguns a P4 at 2.5Ghz. >> >> >>Best regards, >>Vincent >> > >You are correct I did it for a purpose, this is bad advertisement from Motorola. >I believe that even my AMD Athlon 1.6 Ghz is faster than a G4 933 Mhz. http://www.apple.com/powermac >Pichard > > >>>True RISC Processing >>> The new Star line uses Motorola's new RISC processor technology. RISC is an >>>acronym for Reduced Instruction Set Chip. A simple description of what that >>>means is the chip uses a more efficient group of internal commands to accomplish >>>its task. This technology, developed by Motorola, allows processors to process >>>information more quickly. Those of you familiar with Macintosh know of the G4 >>>RISC processors, which process information faster than Pentium or Athlon >>>processors of the same clock speed. A G4 933MHz processor will run 2 to 3 times >>>faster than a 1200mHz (1.2gHz) Pentium 4, partially due to the difference >>>between RISC and DISC (Pentium or Athlon) processors. The processor also >>>generally runs much cooler, extending the lifetime of the chips themselves. The >>>new Novag chess computers utilize this newer processor technology, and the gains >>>are seen in substantially higher playing strengths, at much faster speeds. >>>According to Novag, the Star Sapphire, utilizing the SH7020 16mHz RISC >>>processor, will have and estimated ELO rating of 2530. The Star Diamond, >>>utilizing the SH7020 20mHz RISC processor, will have and estimated ELO rating of >>>2550. All the Star series computers use 1 megabyte of Program Capacity (ROM) and >>>256k of capacity random access memory (RAM). >>> >>> >>>
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