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From:Andy Hall
Date:24 Oct 2000 at 14:55:10
Subject:Re: Quake- It's a bit of a joke innit?

Hello Alan

On 24-Oct-00, you wrote:

I wasn't going to make any replies (as I din't intend to post this but as
you asked)

> i'm actually wondering where you get your MIP values from for a start...i
> also wonder why you bother rating CPU's by their MIPS - the 060 is a
> vastly superior processor to the 040...anyone who's upgraded would know
> this. the FPU on the 060 is also far far more powerful than that of the
> 040.

Well while I was trying to work out how much of a speed increase I would get
if I upgraded to an 060 the only source of information I could find was the
latest Eyetech Ad. They used MIPS so that is what I used (that's why I was
so surpised that anyone had bouagt the game.). If this is rating system is
misleading (but it is alawys the system used on PCs) then I'm sorry, I
wasn't to know :-(

> ...anyway, to put into perspective, framerates of around 16 fps are
> obtained on a 50MHz/060 on my machine

16 Fps still isn't that good, I suppose that really, PPC should have been
the chioce from the start.

Regards



Andy "Trumpton" Hall

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