From: RobertB 

In article , "Geo."
 wrote:

> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:465f4fd0$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> > Check out the results! For the functions that people use most often, the
> > 1986 vintage Mac Plus beats the 2007 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+: 9 tests to 8!
> > Out of the 17 tests, the antique Mac won 53% of the time! Including a
> > jaw-dropping 52 second whipping of the AMD from the time the Power button
> > is pushed to the time the Desktop is up and useable.
>
> Ok so this I know is a bogus test. Who here does one thing at a time
> anymore? Who here even gives pre-emptive multitasking a second thought
> anymore?
>
> That 1984 mac didn't have to have email running while you were doing 10
> different other things and at the same time be linked to a dozen other
> computers around the world. You didn't have email, you didn't have IM, you
> didn't use a computer at all for communications, or monitoring, or security
> cameras, or news or any of a hundred other things that are all done with
> this one device today.
>
> Geo.

And you didn't have Quartz or journaling either.

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