DingusPPC: A more accurate PowerPC Mac emulator

[Phipli]

One does need to be careful with benchmarks vis-a-vis real world performance since it depends a lot on the particular test's working set. If it's all in internal L1 caches, it'll show a huge improvement, but if you're spending a lot of time poking RAM, not as much....

Yes, I realise that, although some tasks are also small and repetitive. Different things are different, so a consistent workload, nicely broken down like in System Info can be informative regarding the strengths and weaknesses of a system and helps comparing.

Yeah, per Micromac it's a 16 bit RAM bus on those accelerators, reinforced by it permitting SIMMs to be installed in pairs. A strange choice for sure.

That's a bit daft. If you're going to put four slots on a 32bit bussed processor. Weird to hobble your accelerator when you need to compete with other vendors.

 

[adespoton]

That's a bit daft. If you're going to put four slots on a 32bit bussed processor. Weird to hobble your accelerator when you need to compete with other vendors.

Yeah; I suspect it was a case of "we're moving to NuBus; let's just toss some extra capacity on our existing boards and tweak them for the last of our PDS offerings" thing. It didn't take long for Sonnet to eat up the market with their newer, superior designs. I just bought my accelerator a few months too soon