This is a religious issue ;-). Take your favorite benchmark program, run it on both machines... buy the faster one. What? You say you have more than one favorite benchmark? Run 'em all and take the average, or weighted average, or ... Matt Waters wrote: > > Me and a friend of mine are in the middle of a debate and were > wondering if you guys could help settle it. > > When one of you guys put your SGI Indy up for sale, I told my friend > about it, and we began arguing over the power of a risc processer. He argues > that because of a risc's limited instruction set, a risc is slower than a > comperable x86 because it requires more intructions to accomplish a task. I > argue that risc's have more bang per computational cycle, because the > instructions they use take up fewer clock cycles, and fewer instructions > means the cpu can transmit data more quickly. Plus, the 64-bit bus allows > the cpu to handle data more efficiently. (My friend claims that PIIs and up > use 128-bit buses with 32-bit compatibility mode.) > > I admit, my hardware skills aren't nearly where they should be, so > please don't ream me out too badly if I am suffering from severe > rectal-cranial inversion. =) > > ---------- > The Fishy One's Infinite Wisdom #15: "A man doesn't need a scarecrow if he's > got penguins." > > New wisdom every week! > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >