[vcf-midatlantic] Original Macintosh Architecture Questions
Andrew Diller
dillera at gmail.com
Wed Jun 23 21:19:10 UTC 2021
Woah there. There is no such thing as a bad SGI. Every one of them at least ran IRIX, no matter the systems-level design (or lack thereof).
Also, the octane was not purple. And many wanted a purple computer. Or at least found out they did.
-andy
> On Jun 23, 2021, at 5:04 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>
> On 6/23/21 4:55 PM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>> The Atari ST was similar CPU, no idea why it could achieve faster
>> performance. Early Macs sure are pretty sluggish though.
>
> It's pretty easy to hamstring a fast processor with poor systems-level
> design. Look at the SGI Indigo2 R10K systems, for example. An Octane
> with the same CPU at the same clock speed runs rings around it.
>
> -Dave
>
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> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
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