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From:Steve Hodson
Date:12 Jul 2001 at 05:33:34
Subject:Re: Oh dear!

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From: <david260179@ic24.net>
To: <amigactive@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 12:48 AM
Subject: [amigactive] Oh dear!

> saw this on the haage-partner website:
>
>
> Our suspicions were confirmed, and this statement can be found in the
> product AmigaWriter. Here we went through a great deal of trouble to
> create a special Phase5-PPC optimised version. This resulted in a
> speed-increase of 5 to 30% with some functions. This a far away from
> the expected 5 to 10-fold speed increase (5-fold because of the 5x
> higher tact rate of the PPC, and doubling speed through the superior
> techniques of the CPU).

[snip!]

Is this new news to anyone? We always knew that except in a very few cases
that it would take the moving of the OS to PPC to maximize the benefits it
offers.....

Funny how H&P should worry *now* about killing the PPC market....

Steve

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